Climategate, the November 17th hacking and internet publishing of over a thousand emails and documents from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), is the latest attack ...

Paleolimnology (Greek: paleon=old, limne=lake, logos=study) is a scientific subdiscipline closely related to both limnology and paleoecology. Palaeolimnological studies are concerned with reconstructing the paleoenvironments of inland ...

A eutrophic body of water, commonly a lake or pond has high primary productivity due to excessive nutrients and is subject to algal blooms resulting in poor water quality ...

Deep sea mining is a relatively new mineral retrieval process that takes place on the ocean floor. Ocean mining sites are usually around large areas of polymetallic nodules or active ...

Virgin is a leading branded venture capital organisation and is one of the world's most recognised and respected brands. Conceived in 1970 by Sir Richard Branson.

A misfit stream (or underfit stream) is a stream that is far too small to have eroded the valley which the stream occupies. The shape of the valley may also ...

Carbon trading started as part of a UN international treaty on climate change. The objective was to "...achieve stabilization of greenhouse concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would ...

River bifurcation (from Latin furca, fork) is the separation of a stream into two parts. The creation of distributaries is the consequence of bifurcation. Some rivers form complex networks of ...