The research, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (Nerc), has been written up in the journal Nature.

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They are the result of a joint project by the universities of Oxford and Durham, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council.

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The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, the Natural Environment Research Council and the Department of Trade and Industry are expected to provide funding.

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Professor John Richard Krebs, FRS. Chief executive, Natural Environment Research Council.

BBC: Life Peers to Order of the Companion of Honour

Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and hosted within the International and Strategic Partnerships Office at the National Oceanography Centre, the UK delegation to IOC coordinated the UK's contribution to IOC.

UNESCO: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has sent up a reconnaissance flight to investigate how the ash is distributed in the cloud, something that is impossible to assess from satellite imagery.

BBC: Icelandic volcanic ash alert grounds UK flights

Working on a project known as CBESS funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, they have calculated that waves lose about half of their energy when they pass over just ten metres of marshland.

BBC: Legacy of Britain's great flood

Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper reports that the Information Commission is investigating seven government departments: Environment, Fisheries and Oceans, Natural Resources, National Defence, the Treasury Board Secretariat, National Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

BBC: Has Canada's government been muzzling its scientists?

Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper reports that Canada's Information Commission is investigating seven government departments: Environment, Fisheries and Oceans, Natural Resources, National Defence, the Treasury Board Secretariat, National Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

BBC: Has Canada's government been muzzling its scientists?