Planet Earth stories
Good pointers
When you open up the mapping app on your smartphone, a little blue dot appears showing where you are. Out one side, a little shadow shows which way you're facing. Type in your destination and it leads the way. It knows if you pause and it knows when to tell you to turn.
7 Nov 2017
Tags: Geology, Mapping, Technology
Solving the mystery of Shetland's tsunami sands
Shetland's wild, rugged landscape has long fascinated scientists, but for one British Geological Survey marine geologist, it's the seabed around the islands that have ignited his interest.
6 Nov 2017
Scotland seen by satellites
The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has used the latest satellite technology to launch new digital maps showing the differences of the UK countryside. The maps show the UK's most built-up, most wooded and most farmed counties.
1 Nov 2017
I'm a puffin scientist
The future looks brighter for the colourful puffins on the Isle of May off the coast of Fife in Scotland.
27 Oct 2017
Tags: Birds, Marine life, UK
X-rays of Scotland's seabed reveal how Ice Age ended
Scientists have X-rayed sediment cores taken from the seabed around the coast of North West Scotland and Shetland to solve the mystery of what happened to Scotland's ice sheet at the end of the Ice Age.
27 Oct 2017
Tags: Climate, Environmental change, Geology, Ice, Oceans, Technology, UK
Meet your inner lizard
An ancient little lizard-like creature from the Scottish Borders is the missing ancestral link between human beings and the fish we evolved from millions of years ago.
24 Oct 2017
Tags: Evolution, Palaeontology, UK
What do you think is the biggest question on Earth?
This 17-19 November at 'UnEarthed. Explore the world at your feet', about 100 NERC-funded scientists are engaging the public with the biggest questions on Earth.
20 Oct 2017
Tags: Natural resources, Public engagement, UK
UK's most wanted...
You've probably heard of the harlequin ladybird and you've certainly seen a grey squirrel, but what about others that might be on their way?
22 Sep 2017
Microplastics in the bellies of creatures living at the bottom of the ocean
Around half of marine creatures living at depths of more than 2,000 metres in the North Atlantic could be eating microplastic material, marine scientists have discovered.
18 Sep 2017
Tags: Biodiversity, Marine life, Microplastics, Oceans, Pollution, UK
30 years of healing the ozone layer
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. The signing of the Montreal Protocol was a landmark political event. The treaty is the first in the history of the United Nations to achieve universal ratification. Environmental science made it happen.
11 Sep 2017