Natural History Museum baffled by mystery bug in their own back yard >> Source: Telegraph
Insect experts at the Natural History Museum in London have been unable to identify an insect found in their grounds, despite the museum holding 28 million specimens in its collection.
Offshore wind farm locations found via satellite >> Source: Digg
Using a Nasa satellite that indirectly measures stresses on the ocean's surface, US researchers highlight areas of the ocean that have a high amount of wind energy that could be harnessed using floating wind farms.
In deep-sea rock, a place for CO2 >> Source: New York Times
Researchers are proposing to inject carbon dioxide into deep-sea basalt formations to remove it from the atmosphere.
Antarctic ice shelf collapse 'imminent' >> Source: Independent
Scientists are warning that an Antarctic ice shelf the size of Northern Ireland is on the verge of disintegration, even though it is now the middle of the southern hemisphere's winter.
Rare butterfly rises from the ashes >> Source: Independent
One of Britain's most precious nature reserves has made a remarkable comeback from a fire which devastated it two years ago today.
Thursley Common, near Godalming in Surrey, was thought to have lost much of its specialised heathland wildlife in the blaze which swept across its 400 acres, home to scarce birds such as Dartford warblers, nightjars and woodlarks, and a stronghold of the very rare silver-studded blue butterfly.
But the iconic silver-studded blue is again thriving at Thursley, the site's owners, Natural England, have found, and the reserve, one of the best remaining examples of lowland heath, is recovering strongly.
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