The Science and Environment section of the BBC News site has put together a great little feature of science topics which are likely to get the most coverage in 2013. To make it easier for you to digest I am putting them here in bullet point form, but please go onto the site to read about any that interest you in more detail.
- Summer sea-ice
- The next instalment of the IPCC report (for my post about it's leak, see here)
- Extreme weather events
- Synthetic biology and other emerging fields of science
- The badger cull
- The Keyston XL oil pipeline, which if built will span from Alberta (Canada) all the way to Texas
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) which is taking place in Thailand
- The passing of asteroid 2012 DA14, which will come extremely close to Earth (let's hope that calculations are right, and its not coming straight at up!)
So as can be seen from the list environmental topics are at the forefront of science in 2013. Stories that will directly relate to this blog are summer sea-ice (loss is resultant from anthropogenic climate change) and the massive oil pipeline proposed across North America. I will be interested to see how these turn out.
Hi Becca,
ReplyDeleteBit worrying to see many of the major science stories are related to environmental damage (the oil pipeline, sea ice and endangered species) or threats to human civilisations (weather events, and the asteroid as you say!).
As I am discussing in my blog at the moment, let's hope we get good news on the badger cull front!
Harriet
I shall keep my fingers crossed for them!!
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