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The past decades of solar system exploration have revealed that Mars used to have...
Earth, Land

Ancient Lakes on Mars: Opportunities for past life

Author Elise Harrington Date October 21, 2019
Elise Harrington
Tagged aliens, astrobiology, lakes, Mars, paleolakes | Leave a comment |
Chew Bahir on the border of Kenya and Ethiopia is a tough and merciless...
Climate, Culture, Earth, Land, People

Did the mega-lakes of Ethiopia make us human?

Author Markus L Fischer Date January 15, 2019
Markus L Fischer
Tagged Climate, Climate change, landscapes, Modelling, Precipitation | Leave a comment |
Various predictions have forecast that within the next five to twenty years greenhouse gases...
Climate, Land, People

Promises and caveats of solar geoengineering on the land

Author Yuanchao Fan Date January 7, 2019
Yuanchao Fan
Tagged aerosol geoengineering, climate change and politics, climate change solutions, Geoengineering | Leave a comment |
The Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest is known for two things –...
Earth, Land

Dating Oregon landslides with ‘ghost forests’

Author Will Struble Date November 8, 2018
Will Struble
Tagged Cascadia, dendrochronology, lakes, landslides, Pacific Northwest, subduction zone, tree rings | Leave a comment |
How many years can a mountain exist, before it is washed to the sea?...
Climate, Earth, Land, Systems

How long does it take a mountain to die and why does it matter to us?

Author Xumin Pan Date November 6, 2018
Xumin Pan
Tagged ESD summer school, geomorphology, orogen, Qilian, Rivers | Leave a comment |
Shrub encroachment is threatening the livelihoods of billions of people world-wide. This is the...
Biology, Climate, Land

Shrub encroachment – time to demystify a global threat

Author Gregor Ratzmann Date June 14, 2016
Gregor Ratzmann
Tagged East African Summer School, Ecosystems, savanna, shrub encroachment | Leave a comment |
When I was at school I loved science but I hated having to learn...
Climate, Earth, Land

Standing on the shoulders of giants: why old science still matters

Author Jan Schuurman Date May 19, 2016
Jan Schuurman
Tagged Aridity, Climate, east africa, East Africa Summer School, Ethiopia, Hyperspectral, Lake Sediments, Last Glacial Maximum, Proxy, Younger Dryas | 1 Comment |
Why should we study glaciers that no longer exist? And why should we examine...
Climate, Earth, Ice, Land

Why Mud Matters

Author Rachel Devine Date May 18, 2016
Rachel Devine
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Satellite data is revolutionising the way we look at our planet. From tracking deforestation...
Climate, Health, Land, Life, People

Certainly uncertain! Do satellites help to monitor food security in Africa?

Author Robert Luetkemeier Date April 22, 2016
Robert Luetkemeier
Tagged East Africa Summer School, Food Security, Modelling, Rainfall Uncertainty, Remote Sensing, Sub-Saharan Africa | Leave a comment |
A large number of global environmental datasets have become freely available during recent years....
Climate, Earth, Land

The paradox of free data access in Tanzania

Author Canute Hyandye Date April 19, 2016
Canute Hyandye
Tagged bias correction, Climate data access, free weather data, weather satellite | 1 Comment |
Is mowing the lawn destined to become a thing of the past? (Photography by...
Biology, Climate, Land, Society

Lazy lawn? Not in my back yard!

Author Richard Beason Date March 1, 2016
Richard Beason
Tagged Artificial grass, biodiversity loss, gardens, greenwash, lazy lawns | Leave a comment |
My right foot is six-inches deep in mud – thick, smelly, sticky mud –...
Climate, Land, Sea

Stuck in the mud: investigating a tidal bore

Author Peter Sheehan Date August 13, 2015
Peter Sheehan
Tagged Great Ouse, river, tidal bore, tide, Waves | Leave a comment |
Nobody likes to receive negative feedback, because this usually means that you have done...
Air, Ice, Land, Life

Why negative feedback is good for the climate

Author Annemarie Eckes Date August 4, 2015
Annemarie Eckes
Tagged Climate change, feedback, Ice-Albedo feedback, silicate weathering, water-vapor feedback, Weather | Leave a comment |
  If you study hard to become a diplomat, you manage to work for...
Land, Life, People, Sea, Society

The unpredicted consequences of the life of Monsieur de Lesseps.

Author Umberto Binetti Date March 11, 2015
Umberto Binetti
Tagged change, ecology, Lesseps, Mediterranean Sea, migration, Red Sea, Suez Canal | Leave a comment |
Norwegians love their mountains. They go there for hiking in the summer, skiing in...
Earth, Land

The mystery of the Norwegian mountains

Author Vivi Pedersen Date February 25, 2015
Vivi Pedersen
Tagged Climate, geology, Norway, topography | Leave a comment |
The Netherlands, ‘Nederland’, its name literally means ‘low country’. In the CIA World Factbook...
Land, People, Sea, Society

Flood management below sea level – strategies from the Netherlands

Author Karin van der Wiel Date February 3, 2015
Karin van der Wiel
Tagged Climate change, Flood, Global warming, Netherlands, Precipitation, Rivers, Sea, Sea level rise, Storm surge | Leave a comment |
A GLOBAL VIEW ON FIRES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT Forest fires have been around for...
Air, Land, People, Systems

Should we suppress the fire?

Author Stephane Mangeon Date October 22, 2014
Stephane Mangeon
Tagged Air quality, Australia, fire, firefighting, forest, Indonesia | Leave a comment |
7.2 billion people live on this planet. All these people need to eat. Eating...
Land, People, Sea, Systems

Urban Metabolism

Author Anne Morée Date July 16, 2014
Anne Morée
Tagged Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Urban, Waste, Water | Leave a comment |
If we bulldoze a hill to make way for a road or a house,...
Ice, Land

Glaciers bulldozing the landscape the slow way

Author Iselin Medhaug Date June 11, 2014
Iselin Medhaug
Tagged Climate, glacier, landscapes, melt water, sediment coring, sediments | Leave a comment |
The IPCC’s Working Group II report published in March this year gave centre stage...
Land, Life, People, Sea

What price ecosystem services?

Author Andrew Papworth Date May 28, 2014
Andrew Papworth
Tagged Animals, Australia, Biodiversity, Climate change, Ecosystems, Food Production, Gila Monster, greenhouse gases, Health, India, IPCC, Labour Productivity, Mangroves, Plants, Seas, Services, Sherman's Lagoon, Shrimp, TEEB, Thailand, Toomey, USA, Vultures, Waves | Leave a comment |
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