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Research into a process that is threatening to wipe out coral reefs, by a scientist at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has been recognised with a prestigious award worth 1.29 million euros.

Dr Jörg Wiedenmann, head of the centre’s Coral Reef Laboratory has been selected by the European Research Council to receive funding through…

Video of deep-ocean drilling research will be featured at this year’s 2012 AGU meeting in California, including the debut of a new 20-minute documentary of the expedition in the Atlantic this summer.

Shot, edited and broadcast while on board the research drill ship, JOIDES Resolution, the videos featured scientists working to retrieve…

A new study has revealed a rapid response between global temperature and ice volume/sea-level, which could lead to sea-levels rising by over one metre.

During the last few million years, global ice-volume variability has been one of the main feedback mechanisms in climate change, because of the strong reflective properties of large ice sheets.…

Scientists have developed a new approach for evaluating past climate sensitivity data to help improve comparison with estimates of long-term climate projections developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The sensitivity of global temperature to changes in the Earth’s radiation balance (climate sensitivity) is a key factor…

Are there more tropical cyclones now than in the past – or are we just hearing more about them through media, and detecting them more successfully with satellites?

That is the question addressed in new research from Denmark’s Niels Bohr Institute, which demonstrates an increasing tendency for cyclones to occur when the climate is warmer, as it has…

A new study indicates that burning all the Earth’s reserves of fossil fuels could alone cause sea levels to rise by as much as five metres – with levels continuing to rise for typically 500 years after carbon dioxide emissions ceased.

Climate change, including sea level rise, is usually discussed in the context of the next 100 years – the various…

A team of scientists have won over £1 million from the Natural Environment Research Council to monitor the effect of storms on pollution in a river / estuary in Hampshire.

Excess concentrations of phosphate and nitrate in river water originating from fields, crops and sewers are some of the major pollutants affecting Britain’s rivers and estuaries.…

A team of scientists, including University of Southampton scientists who are based at the National Oceanography Centre, have shed new light on the world’s history of climate change.

The Pacific Ocean has remained the largest of all oceans on the planet for many million years. It covers one third of the Earth’s surface and has a mean depth of 4.2km.…

A new study reports that the disintegration of the Maya Civilisation may have been related to relatively modest reductions in rainfall.

The study was led by Professors Martín Medina-Elizalde of the Yucatan Center for Scientific Research in Mexico and Eelco Rohling of the University of Southampton in the UK. Professor Rohling says “Our results show…

Future changes in the climate of the Arctic Ocean – and their possible impact on the climate of the United Kingdom and globally – are the subject of a major new study, supported by a £2.4 million grant from the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

The Arctic is the fastest-warming region of the planet. The summer sea ice melt-back has…