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Swiss researchers provide evidence that a protein in the cell nucleus responds to environmental stimuli like a kind of sensor, regulates genes accordingly and thus exchanges information with the cell memory.

LONDON (Reuters) - A huge pool of fresh water in the Arctic Ocean is expanding and could lower the temperature of Europe by causing an ocean current to slow down, British scientists said Sunday.Using...

Thunderstorms in Africa could influence weather thousands of miles away over
Scotland, scientists have discovered.

The impact of hatcheries on salmon is so profound that in just one generation traits are selected that allow fish to survive and prosper in the hatchery environment, at the cost of their ability to thrive and reproduce in a wild environment.

Outside its capital Ulan Bator, Mongolia is launching the world's largest ice-making experiment in hopes of combating global warming and the urban heat island effect. "The project aims to artificially create 'naleds'—ultra-thick slabs of ice that occur naturally in far northern climes when rivers or springs push through cracks in the surface to seep outwards during the day and then add an extra layer of ice during the night." If successful, the technique could be used in other northern cities.

Fred Pearce: Despite passing the seven billion person mark, the global population birthrate is slowing.

Earth may be overdosing on acid - not the 'turn on, tune in, drop out' kind, but the 'kill fish, kill coral, kill crops' kind. And it's shaping up to be a very bad trip.

A supercomputer called Yellowstone will help researchers map climate change down to the local level.

Some areas may already have drinking water from reclaimed wastewater

Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas have been increasing over the past decades, causing the Earth to get hotter and hotter.

In a breakthrough paper published in Science, researchers from The University of Manchester, The University of Bristol and Sandia National Laboratories report the potentially revolutionary effects of Criegee biradicals. These invisible chemical intermediates are powerful oxidisers of pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide, produced by combustion, and can naturally clean up the atmosphere.

Governance of the UK's first geoengineering project, which aims to inject particles into the stratosphere to cool the planet, is in need of improvement and researchers should have done more to explain its aims to NGOs and the public, say scientists.

Deforestation, considered by scientists to contribute significantly to global warming, has been shown by a Yale-led team to actually cool the local climate in northern latitudes, according to a paper published today in Nature.