Windfarms – friends not foes
Windfarms may be more popular than we think.
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Polar populations
CAPTION: One of the polar bears spotted by Tiago during his trip. CREDIT: Tiago Marques.
Environmental history centre launched
Academics at the Universities of St Andrews and Stirling will this week officially launch a joint research centre for environmental history, with special reference to the history of waste.
EUR1m project to save Europe’s threatened coasts
CAPTION: The sunrise and swans at the Eden site with St Andrews in the background.
Tackling alarming loss of species
The world's Governments may not be able to reach international targets for saving plant and animal species and their habitats because there are no reliable measurements of the rate at which they are disappearing, the Royal Society warned today (15th October 2002).
Scientists explore loch’s hidden depths
University of St Andrews scientists have teamed up with French experts this week, to explore a remote Scottish sea loch for secrets of climate change.
World environment day launches international prize
To coincide with World Environment Day, the University of St Andrews and Conoco today launched the fifth St Andrews Prize for the Environment, the UK's leading international environmental prize.
Surviving the elements
Scots biologists have been awarded over £1 million to explain how plants, animals and microbes respond to changing environments, whether they have been introduced by accident or intentionally.
Corals unlock secrets of climate change
PICTURE CAPTION: Coral Skeletons can be up to 100,000 years old.
Melting the snowball earth theory
Geoscientists in Scotland have found evidence against the controversial theory that the Earth was completely frozen for periods of many millions of years.