Earth

El Nino weather: Worries grow over humanitarian impact

Posted in Science on 30th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller

The strongest El Nino weather cycle on record is likely to increase the threat of hunger and disease for millions of people in 2016.

Comets, not asteroids, pose the real danger to Earth from space

Posted in Science on 26th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller

The threat comes in the form of giant comets known as centaurs, are up to 100 km large and more massive than all of the near-Earth asteroids discovered thus far combined.

Life exploded on Earth after the slow rise of oxygen

Posted in Science on 19th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller

It took 100 million years for oxygen in the oceans and atmosphere to increase to the level that allowed the explosion of animal life on Earth 600 million years ago.

Volcanic event caused ice age during Jurassic Period, new research suggests

Posted in Science on 12th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller

The team suggest that a volcanic event, preventing the ocean flow, rather than a change in CO2 in the atmosphere, led to an Ice age.

Scientists reveal that the rotation of Earth's core holds a clue to understanding global sea level rise

Posted in Science on 12th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller

Scientists are looking down to Earth's core to make accurate predictions of the consequence of climate change.