"Are people who live on islands different in some significant way from those who inhabit the 'mainland'?" asks Nigel Clark
Category: History
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What is prohibiting the breeding success of seabirds in the UK? And how is climate change playing a part?
Category: Natural History
Are burping fish destroying our world?
Category: Environmental Studies
Have a go at managing your own piece of the coastline.
Category: Environmental Studies
A cracking landscape.
Category: Environmental Studies
Does a Japanese solution to land shortage have an averse effect on sea life?
Category: Environmental Studies
Down on the reef, carbon is as important as for land creatures.
Category: Chemistry
All sorts of consumers feed on the organic material found in the waters.
Category: Chemistry
Shells and skeletons of dead sea creatures hold carbon in the sea sediments.
Category: Chemistry
The creatures of the deep ocean help move carbon around.
Category: Chemistry
The turbulence of water in the oceans can send carbon on a journey.
Category: Chemistry
Beneath the pack-ice at the Poles, carbon dissolved in water is slowly moving.
Category: Chemistry
As rivers deposit their contents, carbon starts to lay down.
Category: Chemistry
The first couple of hundred of metres of sea acts as a carbon reservoir.
Category: Across the Sciences
In the Rough Science programme 'Beneath the Waves', Rough Scientists Jonathan and Kathy are given the task of building an air pump that presenter Kate can use to breathe underwater. It’s not just a question of pumping the air down to Kate – the air has to be at the same pressure as the water surrounding her so that her lungs aren’t crushed by the water pressure or over inflated by the pressure of the air pumped down to her. This extract from the second level OU course The Physical World (S207) explains how pressure can be a problem for a diver.
Category: Physics