EPN : Environment / Climate
Goodbye Planet, Hello Plutoid. - Jul 5, 08 - 3:09: PM
After deciding two years ago that Pluto was not a planet, scientists have now dubbed it a celestial body called a 'plutoid', meaning a large orbiting body beyond Neptune not big enough to be a true planet.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Mercury Is Shrinking - Jul 5, 08 - 1:36: PM
The surface of the planet closest to the Sun is shrinking and cracking as its molten iron center cools and a magnetic mystery about the nature of its core is solved.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Battle to Stop Australian Shark Fishery Kicks Off - Jun 4, 08 - 11:37: AM

Plans by the Queensland, Australia, government to license shark fishing in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area have angered shark conservationists.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Phoenix Lander Discovers Ice (or is it rock) on Mars. - May 31, 08 - 11:58: PM

Scientists are elated and say they’re certain  the Phoenix Mars Lander is sitting on a sheet of ice uncovered by it’s thrusters when it landed.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Deep Sea Mining - Will It Rob the Cradle of Life? - May 29, 08 - 11:50: PM

Nautilus Minerals has produced  clean high-grade copper concentrate from its sea-floor site in Papua New Guinea and predicts seafloor mining in the Pacific could grow to become an industry on the same scale as British North Sea oil.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Penguins Poisoned by Decades Old DDT? - May 27, 08 - 12:03: AM

Scientists feel they may have solved why the level of DDT has remained unchanged in penguins despite a global reduction in the pesticide’s use since 1970. Once again global warming is suspected.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Volcano Spits Lightning - May 12, 08 - 1:07: AM

Scientists are studying lightning generated by the ‘dirty thunderstorm’ which accompanied the first eruption of  Chile’s Chaitén Volcano in 9,000 years.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Asteroid May Hit Mars in January - Dec 23, 07 - 1:33: AM

An asteroid discovered by the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey has a 1-in-75 chance of hitting Mars next month and could blast a crater a kilometer or more in width.

EPN : Environment / Climate
US Relents on Climate Treaty Deadline - Dec 17, 07 - 2:09: AM

After boos and condemnation at the Bali Climate Change Conference, the U-S has agreed to support the 2009 deadline for a new treaty on climate change to replace the Kyoto agreement.

EPN : Environment / Climate
EU Threaten Climate Talks Boycott - Dec 14, 07 - 2:59: AM

The European Union says it will boycott climate talks being planned by Washington if the US doesn't compromise during the current conference in Bali.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Joined Faults May Signal Earthquake Doom - Dec 13, 07 - 4:35: AM

A new study has revealed a link between California’s Hayward and Calaveras earthquake faults which may signal impending devastation for the San Francisco area. 

EPN : Environment / Climate
Satellite Tracks Glowing Space Clouds - Dec 13, 07 - 3:00: AM

For the first time scientists have global-scale images of glowing "clouds on the edge of space” which may signal impending climate change.

EPN : Environment / Climate
2400 km Inner Tube Voyage - Aug 16, 07 - 1:58: AM

A Chinese man drifted more than 1,500 miles down the country's longest river in an inner-tube to promote the upcoming Beijing olympic games only to be stopped by authorities an hour before reaching his destination.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Mountain Lake Disappears - Jun 25, 07 - 1:09: AM

An earthquake is just one theory as to what caused the sudden disappearance of a small lake high in the Andes mountains of Chile.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Volcanic Island Explodes Generating Tsunami - May 22, 07 - 12:59: PM

Thousands of people on the eastern side of Siassi Island in the Bismarck Sea fled to high ground after nearby Ritter Island suffered a volcanic explosion generating a tsunami.