Opening seashells to reveal climate secrets
Seashells are more than just pretty objects: they also help scientists reconstruct past climates.
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Seashells are more than just pretty objects: they also help scientists reconstruct past climates.
Reporting from the COP21 conference in Paris, we ask why ‘global warming’ can actually make the weather colder.
Folktales can be a great way to introduce hands-on science into the primary-school classroom.
Try these hands-on activities to introduce your students to microplastics – a hazard for fish and other marine animals – and to our responsibilities to our environment.
Understanding Earth’s climate system can teach us about other planets.
Imagine living with the danger that your home could be flooded at any time. This challenge will enable pupils aged 7–14 to discover the impact that flooding has on people’s lives, and how science and technology can mitigate its effects and help find potential solutions.
The path to the Moon is paved with many challenges. What questions do the next generation of space explorers need to answer?
Chemistry is not always completely environmentally friendly; green chemistry is working to change that.
When measuring the chemistry of the atmosphere, it helps to fly up in specially modified laboratories.
Opening seashells to reveal climate secrets
Unexpected climate change
Experimenting with storytelling
Microplastics: small but deadly
Planetary energy budgets
Beat the Flood
The challenging logistics of lunar exploration
Greening chemistry
Up, up and away: using aircraft for atmospheric monitoring