Dust affects how ice crystals form in clouds, which are crucial to understanding how the climate is changing in the Arctic, new research suggests.
Clarissa Wright
Science writer (environmental) - 111 articlesClarissa Wright graduated with her first degree in BSc Geology & Petroleum at University of Aberdeen in 2013, and later completed MSc Applied & Petroleum Micropalaeontology at University of Birmingham. After her Master’s degree, she entered the scientific publishing industry in London as an Assistant Editor at Springer Nature, where she was later promoted to Senior Assistant Editor. While supporting various academic journals and writing for the BMC Blog there, she achieved a blog writing award. She later joined Frontiers as an Editor Outreach Specialist.
After moving on from academic publishing, she went on to become a full-time science writer and editor, working on various communication projects such as NatureVolve magazine. She has regularly published in American Geophysical Union’s Eos magazine, the UK’s Institute for Marine Engineering (IMarEST) and AZoCleanTech.
With the University of the West of Scotland she successfully completed the course Creative Entrepreneurship. Currently, she is a QA Editor for Mother Tongue and an Editor for YourWeather. Having always been interested in nature, she likes to connect to the outdoors by creating art while working on her cottage rebuild and gardening project.
News by Clarissa Wright
River deltas are important environments for nature and human society, but are being affected by ecological stressors and climate change. Could design thinking save the world's deltas for the future? Some scientists think so.
The relationships of robots with humans bring intriguing questions. Research taken in and around Bristol, involving the city's public, have given insights in how movement corresponds to these dynamics of trust.
A new metric called the 3-30-300 rule is a standard for increasing tree canopy cover in urban cities, which will be important for cooling down urban populations during climate change. But what does this rule involve?
Researchers have been able to fine-tune effortless movements in robots recently. This advance comes after decade-long developments in animal-like robots, such as BigDog designed for military missions. But why was it scrapped?
Space tourism grows as a market with a couple companies offering to take paying customers to space. The question arises - is this good or bad?
High tech remotely operated equipment has revealed new creatures in the deep ocean. One particular "mystery mollusc" appeared particularly tricky to define, in more ways than one. But scientists have cracked its secret.
Science shows that when we work out our muscles, it helps our neurons grow. New research in a petri dish proves that biochemical and physical impacts of exercise can actually heal nerves.
There has been an improvement on how to measure a growth mindset in a quantifiable way thanks to research from the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology.
Intrusion of saltwater from coasts is a risk for freshwater systems as the climate changes. A survey's results send advice to governments and decision makers on this risk.
Super sensitive receivers need to be paired with light beam based communications technology to transmit signals and information scross the great expanse of space. This could transform space exploration.
A gigantic sea creature has been uncovered on a road construction route in Leicestershire, England. What is it?
What have pumpkins and cucumbers got in common? Genetically they can work together to fight off a common enemy - salinity, which is worsening in soils with climate change.
Halloween draws near, so it was quite fitting for a photographer in England to come across a very rare phenomenon through the mist of a mountainside - the Brocken Spectre. Is it as ghostly as it sounds?
New species is a crustacean that “looks like a panda”, as revealed by taxonomic analysis in Japan.
Rocky planets orbiting small stars might be able to support life, based on new science models developed beyond the possibilities of TRAPPIST-1.
A team hiked mountains in South Africa to discover hidden clues about a tsunami that happened 3 billion years ago when a gigantic meteorite hit. While devastating for Earth's life, who, or what, could take advantage of the event?
A geologist and his team have found lead in ice in one of the most regions of the world. Find out why and where.
For the first time, researchers apply a critical eye to track the afterlife of waste in Norway to find not as much is recycled as previously thought, and some authorities have shown inaccurate figures.
An experiment involving growing tomato plants and spraying them with water finds that the size of the water droplets influence how healthy they become.