Models of Scotland's Seagreen wind farm show turbine foundations cooling summer seas by 0.1 to 0.3 degrees Celsius
Modelling of Scotland's Seagreen wind farm in Scientific Reports finds turbine foundations cool summer sea surfaces by about 0.1 to 0.3 degrees Celsius. How big that effect gets depends on season, tide and water layering, so the study recommends timing monitoring for strongly stratified periods.
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Old manganese workings at Grandhome hold uranium at about 100 times Aberdeen granite levels
University of Aberdeen geologists found chernovite crystals at Grandhome in rock holding about 100 times the uranium of typical city granite. The authors say the amounts are not dangerous, and they tie the pocket to groundwater moving through exposed granite about 400 million years ago.
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Lismore volunteers led by Argyll Archaeology found burial grounds and precious-metal working at Lios Mòr, a monastery founded in the sixth century. Their Antiquity paper weighs the site, long known mainly from records and tradition, against Britain's major monasteries.
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Fuel, food and financial insecurity overlap for more than 1 in 10 Scottish adults
Researchers at the University of Aberdeen found more than 1 in 10 of 4,203 Scottish adults surveyed in 2023 faced fuel, food and financial insecurity at once. That overlap is nearly triple what chance would produce, though the study's link to poor health comes from associations in one self-reported survey.
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Shifting UK mowing and grazing dates by two to three weeks would cover far more wader nests
Nesting records from across the UK show that scheme exclusion dates, set one per country, miss when lapwing and oystercatcher are actually on eggs, and an Aberdeen-led team puts the fix at two or three weeks.
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Geological Society study rests the Humber's CO2 storage case on a retired field's production record
Viking South produced more than a trillion cubic feet of gas without a containment failure, and an Aberdeen-led team reads that record as evidence the same rocks can now hold 88 million tonnes of CO2.
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- Evidence50
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