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16-Dec-08

Fleets of robotic aircraft could improve weather forecasts.

"Weather forecasters may not have the best reputation for accuracy, but with today's computational modeling, it's possible to make pretty reliable weather predictions up to 48 hours in advance. Researchers at MIT, however,...

Category: Robotics

16-Dec-08

Sellafield's new nuclear lab

"The Nuclear Research Laboratory's Fiona Rayment gives a guided tour of the plant's new research centre."

Category: Energy sources

16-Dec-08

Enceladus has 'spreading surface'

"A US space agency (Nasa) probe has witnessed a moon of Saturn do something very unusual and Earth-like."

Category: Space

16-Dec-08

Ozone protection feels the heat

"Former UN chief Kofi Annan described the 1989 Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer as "probably the most successful environmental agreement to date". But in this week's Green Room, Fionnuala Walravens considers how the...

Category: Climate Change

16-Dec-08

Obama puts environment at top of agenda

"His choice of the physicist Steve Chu as his energy secretary and the veteran regulator Carol Browner for the newly created White House post of "climate tsarina" received almost unanimously positive response from...


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