Bradford’s branding Share 1 inShare0 Email The Guardian, Friday 5 July 2013 06.00 AEST National Media Museum: an exercise in the dark arts of rebranding? The difficulties at the National Media Museum (Report, 3 July) might be to do with the redevelopment of Bradford city centre and associated building work, but the fall in visitor Continue Reading →
That’s deep – scientists harness power of ocean’s currents Posted on 04 July 2013 by Vicky Ellis Scientists in Madrid say they have designed a device which could harness the power of ocean currents in deeper water and potentially at a cheaper cost than existing technology. Researchers at Madrid’s Polytechnic University (UPM) conducted sea trials Continue Reading →
Coalition to reduce funds available for ‘green army’ of environment volunteers Tony Abbott says it will now take five years for ‘troop’ numbers to reach the 15,000 initially promised Share 102 inShare1 Email Lenore Taylor, political editor guardian.co.uk, Friday 5 July 2013 13.27 AEST Tony Abbott (left) plants a tree as part of the bush Continue Reading →
China’s largest algal bloom turns the Yellow Sea green The algae, which can suffocate marine life, is thought to be caused by pollution from agriculture and industry Share 152 inShare3 Email Karl Mathiesen guardian.co.uk, Friday 5 July 2013 02.46 AEST Jump to comments (60) Tourists bath at a beach covered by a thick layer of Continue Reading →
Dissolution of ophiuroid ossicles on the shallow Antarctic shelf: implications for the fossil record and ocean acidification Published 3 July 2013 Science Leave a Comment Tags: biological response, dissolution, echinoderms, morphology, paleo The brittlestar, Ophionotus victoriae, is abundant in Explorers Cove, offshore Taylor Valley. However its ossicles, composed of high-Mg calcite, have not been reported from Cenozoic Continue Reading →
Unprecedented ocean acidification from greenhouse gases putting Canadian waters at risk, says report Published 4 July 2013 Media coverage Leave a Comment OTTAWA – Canada’s Atlantic waters may be “particularly vulnerable” to increased carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere that are causing “unprecedented” acidification of the planet’s oceans, says a report by scientists at the Department of Continue Reading →