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Tag Archives: water
Keeping an eye on ocean microbes
A guest post from Dr Helen Bridle, Royal Academy of Engineering and EPSRC Fellow at Heriot-Watt University. Her blog can be found here. What’s the issue? New tools to detect ocean microbes have recently been developed by researchers at the … Continue reading
Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems: Event Summary
A guest post from Dr Valerie McCarthy, Assistant Lecturer at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland. Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDEs) are geologically and physio-graphically complex and are recognised as an important but, nevertheless, poorly understood set of habitats. At a recent … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, environment, geology, water
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Mercury rising
Minamata has become a word synonymous with disease. ‘Minamata disease’ was first identified in 1956, after years of chemical company Chisso discharging methyl mercury into Minamata Bay, Japan. It was a process that continued until 1968, and left over 2,500 … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, energy, environment, hazards, mercury, minamata, mining, water
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Earth Science Week 2012 – working with NGOs
We’re returning to the Philippines for our fourth career blog, where scientists recognising the social impact of their work is more important than ever… Dr Carlos Primo C David, Geologist at the University of the Philippines, National Institute of Geological … Continue reading
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Tagged earth science week, education, environment, flooding, geography, geology, geoscientist, hazards, water
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Precipitating a crisis?
Hosepipe bans are becoming a familiar feature of summer, and with claims that 2012 could see ‘the worst drought in 30 years’, they are here again. Well timed, then, that the theme of a recent Geological Society conference was “Water … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, drought, energy, environment, resources, technology, water
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Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink – the future for water?
The problem Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner faced, becalmed in the middle of the ocean, was that despite ‘water, water, everywhere’, none of it was suitable for drinking. The average human can survive for only a few days without access to clean … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, Coleridge, environment, geology, global population, mining, Poetry, rainfall, rivers, water
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