The unwillingness of scientists at the University of East Anglia to release climate data to people who choose not to believe in climate change was a mistake. Science advances through openness, through the ability of others to replicate the same findings or demonstrate error in discovery and interpretation. Reluctance to disclose – revealed last week [...]
The climate change secretary denies that controversies over scientific data have undermined efforts to tackle global warming.
Closest-ever Phobos flybyThis highly elliptical orbit will enable Mars Express, on March 3, to conduct the closest flyby and examination of Phobos, Mars’ largest moon. The flyby, at a planned altitude of just 50 km, will collect very precise radio Do…
About DMC International Imaging LtdDMC International Imaging Ltd (DMCii) is a UK based supplier of remote sensing data products and services for international Earth Observation (EO) markets. DMCii supplies programmed and archived optical satellite imag…
UN climate chief Yvo de Boer says recent scandals over climate data are unfortunate but don’t discredit the view that the earth is warming and humans must act.
The Information Commissioner’s Office found that a university unit involved in a controversy over stolen e-mails on climate research breached rules by withholding data, BBC News reported.Messages hacked in November showed that requests under the Freedo…
A study of animals visible to the naked eye and living in and on the seabed – the ‘macrobenthos’ – of the Straits of Magellan and Drake Passage will help scientists understand the biodiversity, biogeography and ecology of the Magellanic region.&quo…
Copenhagen–Even under this city’s low, leaden skies, at least one thing remained clear as leaders from 193 countries gathered to negotiate climate agreements: one ton of carbon dioxide emitted in the U.S. has the same effect as one ton emitte…
A university involved in a row over stolen e-mails breached rules by withholding data, the Information Commissioner says.
PITTSBURGH — In response to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute (LTI) have publicly released spoken and textual data they’ve compiled on Haitian Creole so that translation tools …