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New project to develop 'smart' pesticides

Published
27 April 2015
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Environment

映客直播 researchers are playing a key role in a 鈧7 million international collaboration, granted by the European Union's Horizon 2020 fund, to develop new, eco-friendly pesticides.

Parasite turns shrimp into voracious cannibals

Published
18 March 2015
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Environment

Parasites can play an important role in driving cannibalism, according to a new research which looked at cannibalism among freshwater shrimp in Northern Ireland.

Arctic ice cap slides into the Ocean

Published
23 January 2015
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Environment

Satellite images have revealed that a remote Arctic ice cap has thinned by more than 50 metres since 2012 - about one sixth of its original thickness - and that it is now flowing 25 times faster.

Geoengineering our climate is not a 'quick fix'

Published
26 November 2014
Categories
Environment

The deliberate, large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system is not a "quick fix"聺 for global warming, according to the findings of the UK's first publicly funded studies on geoengineering.