https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us provides the latest news from PlanetEarth Online The dramatic sight of Atlantic waves crashing onto UK shores from the vast, surging ocean illustrates perfectly the joke behind its nickname of 'The Pond'. https://phys.org/news/2019-06-ocean.html Thu, 20 Jun 2019 10:23:40 EDT news480245013 There is little to see today of Helike, just a few walls and artefacts scraped clean by archaeologists. https://phys.org/news/2019-06-helike.html Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:01:29 EDT news479034082 We all know the amazing job that bees and birds, as pollinators, do for the planet. But have you heard about the humble copepod? https://phys.org/news/2019-04-copepods-unsung-heroes-ocean.html Thu, 25 Apr 2019 11:20:55 EDT news475410046 Glue-like substances secreted by bacteria are sticking tiny particles of plastic together in the ocean to form larger masses. https://phys.org/news/2019-02-plastics-glued-ocean.html Wed, 06 Feb 2019 07:56:50 EST news468662204 What do you picture when you think about climate change? Perhaps you see failing crops, rising sea levels or melting glaciers. But what about struggling small businesses? https://phys.org/news/2019-01-climate-disaster-small-businesses-southern.html Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:19:28 EST news466420762 Flying through a patch of severe and unexpected turbulence is an unforgettable, unsettling and sometimes painful experience for tens of thousands of passengers each year. https://phys.org/news/2018-11-smoother-safer.html Fri, 23 Nov 2018 13:46:07 EST news462203156 News that chocolate, bread and dried fruit all share a common ingredient with household detergents and cosmetics might sound both unlikely and unappetising. https://phys.org/news/2018-11-biodiversity-palm-oil.html Thu, 15 Nov 2018 10:30:01 EST news461499615 It is a rare TV programme that has the instant impact of David Attenborough's Blue Planet II. https://phys.org/news/2018-11-trivial-issue-primetime-tva-journey.html Thu, 08 Nov 2018 10:01:42 EST news460893694 Chocolate may be one of life's little pleasures, but in Ghana, for many, it is the very means of life. Around 800,000 households, smallholdings effectively, make their way by cultivating cocoa, and many more are involved in the supply chains that bring it to our supermarket shelves. https://phys.org/news/2018-10-cocoa-crops-livelihoods.html Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:54:49 EDT news460198483 Shetland has been hit by at least two more tsunamis in the past 10,000 years than previously thought, and scientists are working to identify where the giant waves originated. https://phys.org/news/2018-09-scientists-source-shetland-tsunamis.html Tue, 18 Sep 2018 08:20:01 EDT news456476857 Dr. Nicola Masey has found that a new system can accurately model air quality in large cities like London in minutes, within five metres of any given location using just a standard office computer. https://phys.org/news/2018-08-technology-cities-air-quality-minutes.html Tue, 21 Aug 2018 11:00:01 EDT news454067801 Scientists flew through the plumes of smoke rising from the Yorkshire moor fires to sample pollution levels. https://phys.org/news/2018-07-scientists-emissions-yorkshire.html Thu, 12 Jul 2018 08:10:01 EDT news450600564 Underwater robots have uncovered new evidence about life in the Arctic and, for the first time, revealed the moment the region's marine ecosystem springs into life after the dark winter season. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-sea-robots-arctic-climate.html Fri, 08 Jun 2018 09:47:29 EDT news447670024 With a death toll of more than 250,000 people, the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 was one of the most devastating disasters of recent history. https://phys.org/news/2018-05-ocean-archives.html Wed, 23 May 2018 10:29:42 EDT news446290173 The UK's spectacular scenery attracts millions of visitors from around the world. Iconic heath, peatland and sea lochs don't just look beautiful though. They are shaped by the changing climate. https://phys.org/news/2018-05-uk-natural-carbon-storage.html Thu, 17 May 2018 09:19:00 EDT news445767510 It is 15 years since the UK sweltered in the record-breaking 2003 summer heatwave. While the sunshine was welcome to many, it also brought deadly consequences, with more than 2,000 people across England and Wales dying in the stifling heat. Some 800 of those deaths were due to air pollution. https://phys.org/news/2018-02-cities_1.html Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:48:25 EST news438511686 Four days since leaving port, Dr. Katsiaryna Pabortsava reaches her destination. She's in the middle of the North Atlantic, thousands of miles from land, and she's looking for microplastics. https://phys.org/news/2018-01-plastic-free-oceans.html Mon, 08 Jan 2018 08:50:01 EST news434621066 Scottish legend is full of tall tales of selkies, the mythical and beautiful seal-folk who shed their skins to become people, leaving sea for shore. Such popular, lasting stories show how important seals were to remote coastal communities across Scotland in the past. Marine mammals were a vital source of food and of oil, for heat and light, which islanders, in particular, relied upon. https://phys.org/news/2017-11-shores.html Thu, 16 Nov 2017 08:27:11 EST news430043042 Auchencorth Moss is one of Scotland's distinctive moorlands, which for generations have provided people with a lifesaving source of peat to burn to keep warm. https://phys.org/news/2017-11-bad-air.html Tue, 14 Nov 2017 08:51:52 EST news429871023 Tropical climates in the depths of Asia, Africa or South America might seem a world away from the checkout queue in your average Scottish supermarket or corner shop. But if your basket contains chocolate, coffee, bananas or rice, you can almost guarantee that what you eat comes from far warmer places thousands of miles away. https://phys.org/news/2017-11-dietary-choices-impact-global-wildlife.html Fri, 10 Nov 2017 10:01:16 EST news429530470 The future looks brighter for the colourful puffins on the Isle of May off the coast of Fife in Scotland, where experts from NERC's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology are conducting one of the most comprehensive studies of seabird populations in the world. https://phys.org/news/2017-10-im-puffin-scientist.html Fri, 27 Oct 2017 09:31:03 EDT news428315366 An ancient little lizard-like creature from the Scottish Borders is the missing ancestral link between human beings and the fish we evolved from millions of years ago. https://phys.org/news/2017-10-lizard.html Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:10:03 EDT news428056125 Scientists have discovered a large area of the deep seabed strewn with mounds of asphalt off the coast of Angola, hosting rich animal life. https://phys.org/news/2014-12-deep-sea-asphalt-mounds-west-african.html Mon, 15 Dec 2014 09:05:50 EST news337856742 Trawling the seabed doesn't just remove some of the fishes living there; it also makes some of the survivors thinner and less healthy by forcing them to use more energy finding less nutritious food. https://phys.org/news/2014-12-trawling-skinny-flatfish.html Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:19:58 EST news337508263 Bottlenose dolphins in Africa use signature whistles to identify each other, say scientists investigating the animals communication. https://phys.org/news/2014-11-bottlenose-dolphins-specific.html Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:38:06 EST news335608670 A new solution to measure cell movement could save scientists hundreds of thousands of pounds, says the researcher who developed the method to save himself time and money in the lab. https://phys.org/news/2014-11-microscope-hack-cheap-disease.html Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:56:48 EST news334914982 The aftereffects of the 2010 red mud spill that threatened to poison great swathes of the Hungarian countryside have turned out to be far less harmful than scientists originally feared. https://phys.org/news/2014-11-hungarian-red-mud-long-term.html Mon, 03 Nov 2014 08:41:22 EST news334226473 The tiny creatures that live in seabed sediments are far more genetically varied than we thought – and they're spread around the oceans according to similar rules to those governing the distribution of bigger plants and animals, a recent study shows. https://phys.org/news/2014-10-seabed-inhabitants-diversity.html Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:49:12 EDT news333618543 A UK-led international research team has carried out the first experiment to recreate what would happen if CO2 started leaking after being stored deep under the sea floor. Their findings add weight to the idea that this could be a viable way to cut our impact on the climate. https://phys.org/news/2014-10-scientists-probe-leak-seabed-co2.html Thu, 02 Oct 2014 07:20:01 EDT news331451103 Honeybees infected with a common parasite have a much lower chance of making it back from foraging trips, say scientists. https://phys.org/news/2014-09-honeybee-homing-hampered-parasite.html Wed, 03 Sep 2014 07:00:01 EDT news328945317