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Oxygen therapy slows mouse wrinkles
IN BRIEF: 09:00 10 July 2010
Mice placed in an oxygen chamber show fewer signs of the skin damage caused by exposure to UVB radiation
Stabilisers will let deep-sea wind turbines stand tall
NEWS: 16:05 09 July 2010
Objections to offshore wind farms will disappear if the turbines can be built to float far out at sea
Soaring Arctic temperatures – a warning from history
12:20 09 July 2010 | 4 comments
With carbon dioxide levels near our own, the Pliocene Arctic may have warmed much more than we thought – and today's Arctic could go the same way
Sea otters worth $700 million in carbon credits
17:38 07 July 2010
If North American sea otters were restored to historical population levels, they could help lock up carbon worth a fortune on the European carbon-trading market
SkyTruth founder: Remote sensing for the people
INTERVIEW: 17:15 07 July 2010
John Amos explains how satellite imagery is helping us find and monitor environmental damage as never before
Climategate inquiry: no deceit, too little cooperation
16:51 07 July 2010 | 2 comments
The official UK inquiry into the climategate affair confirms the "rigour and honesty of the scientists involved" but tells them to be more open
Prehistoric humans may have pushed climate change
THIS WEEK: 14:20 07 July 2010
Humans were fiddling with climate thousands of years even before we started farming – if we had a hand in the extinction of woolly mammoths
Climate change could drive crocs out of the water
IN BRIEF: 13:30 07 July 2010
Warming waters could mean crocodiles will struggle to find food and protection
Secrets of backboned life found on undersea mountains
GALLERY: 12:55 07 July 2010
After sending a diving robot down to the great mountain range under the Atlantic Ocean, researchers have found a host of new species
Right whales yell over the ocean din
00:01 07 July 2010 | 1 comment
To cope with the blitzing level of noise in today's oceans, North Atlantic right whales are learning to shout
OIL SPILL VICTIMS
How endangered are the Gulf's brown pelicans?
Brown pelicans dripping with oil are quickly becoming the poster children of the ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill. We review the facts
GULF OF MEXICO
Special report: Deepwater Horizon oil spill
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico is now the site of one of the world's worst environmental disasters. Follow events as they unfold in our special report
