Last chance for the rainforest plan?: Five years ago, the Tropical Forestry Action Plan seemed the answer to environmentalists’ prayers. But judged by its own objectives, the plan has failed. Can it be reformed?
Features
This week's magazine
2 March 1991
Issue 1758
On the cover
Editor's picks
Earth
Saving Brazil’s savannas
Features
Fishing in evolutionary waters: The way we exploit a fishery influences the way a population of fish evolves. Can we manage this evolution?
Features
Pricing cars off city streets: Traffic in cities frequently comes to a standstill. Making motorists pay extra for the privilege of driving into town could cut the congestion considerably
Features
California’s war on pesticides: As farmers and environmentalists fight over the safety of pesticides, a federal review may force a third of them off the market. Some growers are already looking for more natural ways to keep their pests under control
Features
What if the big bang didn’t happen?
Features
Table of contents
News
Famous women find a home in Venus
News
Doctors and dentists say no to HIV testing
News
Cigarettes and uranium: a lethal combination?
News
Kuwait’s oil wells send smoke to Iraq
News
Daresbury faces the chop . . . again
News
Germany plans 10-year cleanup for east
News
Fire danger at North Wales nuclear store
News
Popular science
News
Research ethics face national scrutiny
News
A home fit for platypuses?
News
South African links
News
Science policy prize
News
Space doors damaged
News
Pair of pandas are a double first
News
Moldan dismissed
News
Mobile researchers
News
Rotting Trabbies
News
Syphilis and crack
News
AAAS: Why men should also think of the baby
News
AAAS: Soviet Union strives to cash peace dividend
News
AAAS: Prayers for research animals
News
AAAS: Nubian mummies had problems with politics
News
AAAS: Japanese fear loss of ‘soul’ abroad
News
AAAS: Millions ignore cancer risk from radon
News
AAAS: On the scent of a better day at work
News
AAAS: Satellites cloud astronomers’ vision
News
Science: Oddball asteroid springs yet more surprises
News
Science: Hopes grow for ‘perfect’ contraceptive
News
Science: Coming soon – the incredible levitating mouse
News
Science: Allergy cells present target for a new type of treatment
News
Science: Sun ‘not to blame’ for global warming
News
Environment
Science: How baboons survive in world’s worst desert
News
Technology
Technology: A line of light could save a life
News
Technology
Technology: The case of the novelist’s car-phone
News
Technology
Technology: The robot that ate PVC
News
Technology
Technology: Cement factory bites into its own dust
News
Technology
Technology: Rivals jostle for lead in super chips
News
Technology
Technology: Windfall for Scotland’s renewable power
News
Technology
Technology: ‘Idle’ computers hunt for big primes
News
Technology
Technology: Tiny cathodes make a flat TV screen
News
Features
Last chance for the rainforest plan?: Five years ago, the Tropical Forestry Action Plan seemed the answer to environmentalists’ prayers. But judged by its own objectives, the plan has failed. Can it be reformed?
Features
Earth
Saving Brazil’s savannas
Features
Fishing in evolutionary waters: The way we exploit a fishery influences the way a population of fish evolves. Can we manage this evolution?
Features
Pricing cars off city streets: Traffic in cities frequently comes to a standstill. Making motorists pay extra for the privilege of driving into town could cut the congestion considerably
Features
California’s war on pesticides: As farmers and environmentalists fight over the safety of pesticides, a federal review may force a third of them off the market. Some growers are already looking for more natural ways to keep their pests under control
Features
What if the big bang didn’t happen?
Features
More
Talking Point: Plans alone will not save the rainforests
Review: Whales of anguish, tales of emotion
Books & Arts
Humans
Review: The pattern of genius
Books & Arts
Review: Another type of ambiguity
Books & Arts
Review: The hard life of an organic chemist
Books & Arts
Review: ‘Future Cities and Information Technology’
Books & Arts
Review: Engineering a nation
Books & Arts
Review: The lure of Mars
Books & Arts
Review: Pick of the Paperbacks
Books & Arts
