North Atlantic cold-water sink returns to life
Convective mixing resumes after a decade due to massive loss of Arctic ice.
Space agency funding defies downturn
European ministers commit €10 billion to space missions, Earth monitoring and new facilities.
Terrestrial origin mooted for more microbes
More than two-thirds of bacteria may have descended from a land-dwelling ancestor.
Saving the Majorcan midwife toad
Researchers start gearing up to mitigate the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus in the wild.