Originally Published by The Guardian – With winds of over 80mph and heavy rain, the south coast of Britain is once again hit badly by winter storms coming in off the Atlantic.
Storm batters south-west UK – in pictures
Earliest UK human footprints found
Originally Published by BBC News – Scientists discover the earliest evidence of human footprints outside of Africa on the Norfolk coast in Eastern England.
Scientists to launch bio robots in Indian Ocean to study its ‘interior biology’
Originally Published by The Guardian – Floating sensors released by Australia and India to ‘revolutionise’ knowledge of climate change, food, energy and health security.
App helps Pennsylvania get its bridges back
Originally Published by ESRI – Pennsylvania DOT creates mobile app to help partner agencies identify and catalog bridges across the state.
Exploring CRUTEM4 with Google Earth
Originally Published by Real Climate- The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) land surface air temperature data set, CRUTEM4, can now be explored using Google Earth. Access is via this portal together with instructions for using it (though it is quite intuitive).
A new green Enlightenment will define our age
Originally Published by New Scientist – Far from being anti-science, environmentalism is the future in a world of finite resources and global perils, concludes Joachim Radkau in The Age of Ecology.
January was UK's wettest winter month in almost 250 years
Originally Published by ESA- The 2014 World Wetlands Day highlights the need for wetlands and the agriculture sector to work together. ESA’s GlobWetland II project assists Mediterranean countries in the sustainable use of these areas and demonstrates the evolution of wetlands and agricultural patterns over time.