Planet Earth - Spring 2004
NERC's award-winning free magazine, Planet Earth, is aimed at non-specialists with an interest in environmental science.
This issue is no longer in print.
* Unless specified, all articles are less than 1MB in size.
Leader - Environment Research Funders' Forum (*1·1MB) Two years of success... where next?
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit A deadly rabbit virus may not be such a killer after all.
Life underground (*5·4MB) Studying one hectare of Scottish grassland has produced some surprising results.
The Atlantic conveyor belt (*2·7MB) Monitoring the Atlantic Ocean on a scale never before attempted.
Arctic challenge (*4·6MB) Drilling through moving sea ice into the ocean floor.
BIG bangs (*5·1MB) What makes a volcano blow its top?
Iron rations (*2·0MB) Could fertilising the Southern Ocean help us to store carbon?
Forecasts for coastal seas (*1·5MB) Measurements and modelling play vital roles in solving environmental issues.
Raising the Andes (*7·4MB) Could ocean currents act as catalyst for building a mountain range?
A sticky question (*3·7MB) What controls the shape of estuaries?
Oversized, over-sexed and over here (*5·0MB) The invasion of the North American signal crayfish.
Chalk and trees (*9·2MB) Droughts and forests growing over chalk.
Solid as a rock (*4·8MB) Predicting how oil, water and gas all flow through rock.
Ancient Antarctica (*2·0MB) Studying lava might help us reconstruct ancient ice sheet thicknesses.