Gordon Brown has opened a new £7 million environmental science research centre at Bangor University.

Scientists in Britain have found that the Atlantic Ocean is soaking up less carbon dioxide than it was previously. The amount of CO2 it absorbs has fallen by half in the past 10 years.

Prof. Liu Dongsheng, a researcher with the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Medal in 2007 by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) for his exceptional contributions to earth and environmental sciences, particularly in advancing the understanding of paleoclimatic change using Chinese loess-paleosoil sequence.