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Guardians of the Amazon

Things are looking up in the Amazon forests of Colombia. By handing over huge areas of rainforest to the local Indians, the government is providing the most effective form of conservation for both forest and traditional culture

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Farmers get their goat: Europe’s butter and grain mountains are squeezing the profits of British farmers. Many of them are looking hard at ways of beating the production quotas. Could goats be the answer?

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Plant power – fuel for the future: Plants are a benign source of energy. But lack of investment has hindered their development as a modern fuel. The threat to the global environment from fossil fuels could change all that

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The birth of elements

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Esprit gives Brussels a good name: The success of Europe’s ten-year research programme on information technology has overturned the notion that Brussels is merely a comfortable haven for overpaid administrators

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High noon on the Maasai Mara

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The origins of autism

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Tibet – continents in collision: Chinese and Western earth scientists traversed Tibet together for the first time in 1985 to find out what happens when continents collide. Now the political clampdown has put the plateau out of reach again

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A bumpy path to the national curriculum: Under a law passed last year, all teachers at state schools in England and Wales are now required to teach a national curriculum. Some are buckling under the strain, particularly those who are grappling with scien

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Rules of the gender game: Even four-year-olds know what is ‘appropriate’ to their gender. Boys are keen to assert their masculinity, girls who try to play with the Lego find that the boys have already commandeered it

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Clocks and chaos in chemistry: Most chemists believe that the course of a chemical reaction is always predictable. But some catalytic reactions in both inorganic and organic chemistry can behave in bizarre and unruly ways

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A nursery for the rainforest: Restoring the rainforest to its former glory is an awesome but urgent task. The first step is to manufacture the ingredients of a forest – and foresters are trying every trick in the book to encourage tropical trees to grow

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Floods of aid for Bangladesh

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Can biotechnology pick up the pinta?: A dispute over the social implications of the hormone that raises milk production in cows has become a test case of the European consumer’s willingness to accept the products of biotechnology

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