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Climate change is nothing new. Caitlin Sedwick describes how a computer model is helping scientists to explain the extinction of the woolly mammoth.
Ages: 16-19;
Why not get your students to make their own predictions of climate change – with the help of Dudley Shallcross and Tim Harrison from Bristol University, UK?
Ages: 16-19;
In this, the second of two articles, climate researcher Rasmus Benestad from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute examines the evidence that humans are causing climate change.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Science fact or science fiction? Margarita Marinova from Caltech, USA, investigates the possibility of establishing life on Mars.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Sigrid Griet Eeckhout from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, investigates what determines the toxicity of mercury compounds – and how X-ray light is helping to solve the mystery.
Ages: 16-19;
In the first of two articles, climate researcher Rasmus Benestad from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute examines the evidence for climate change.
Ages: 16-19;
Bringing marine science into the classroom can be challenging work for teachers. So why not take the classroom – and the teachers – to sea? Vikki Gunn’s Classroom@Sea project does just that.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Marine ecologists Iris Hendriks, Carlos Duarte, and Carlo Heip ask why – despite its importance – research into marine biodiversity is so neglected.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
We sit on them, wear them and cook with them: plastics are everywhere. Yet this very versatility makes it difficult to produce and dispose of plastics in environmentally friendly ways. David Bradley explains how researchers at the University of Manchester, UK, are working on a solution.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Elisabeth Schepers from the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, introduces a school programme linking climate change and the future of traffic technology.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
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What killed the woolly mammoth?
Topics: Biology, Earth science
| Issue 9
Climate change modelling in the classroom
Topics: Physics, Earth science, Mathematics
| Issue 8
What do we know about climate? Investigating the effects of anthropogenic global warming
Topics: Earth science, Science and society
| Issue 8
Life on Mars: terraforming the Red Planet
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space, Earth science
| Issue 7
Mercury: a poisonous solution
Topics: Chemistry, Earth science
| Issue 7
What do we know about climate? The evidence for climate change
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Earth science
| Issue 7
Classroom@Sea: bringing real marine science into the classroom
Topics: Earth science
| Issue 6
Why biodiversity research keeps its feet dry
Topics: Biology, Earth science
| Issue 5
Plastics, naturally
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Earth science
| Issue 5
Travel wisely: the globe is warming!
Topics: Earth science, General science
