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Keep up, catch up or give up: can coral reefs keep pace?

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Gone with the waves

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A dam disaster waiting to break: The water stored behind a dam is a potential hazard for people living downstream of the reservoir, in towns and cities as well as out in the country. When the next dam fails, most countries have no plans to cope with the

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Who’s counting on krill? Whatever happened to krill? Once they were touted as a vast untapped source of protein, but few took the idea seriously. Yet, down in the Southern Ocean huge fishing fleets are bringing in the krill – despite the fact that no one

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Swords into chocolate truffles: The Soviet Union is committed to converting military technology to civilian use, and placing strict environmental controls on industry. Both are proving hard to implement

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Nuclear safety – some like it hot: Nuclear power is not everyone’s favourite source of electricity. The nuclear industry is trying to convince dissenters that high-temperature, gas-cooled reactors could operate more safely and reliably than existing reac

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Hunters claim a stake in the forest

Parks to protect rainforest are always welcome 鈥� or are they? 鈥� When the local people live off the local wildlife, it can be hard to reduce their dependence without causing conflict

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Portraits of chaos: The five-dimensional pendulum picture show

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Why experiment on human embryos?: The study of ‘spare’ human embryos donated for research will lead to better ways of treating infertility and preventing genetic disease – It is senseless, and unethical, to stop the research while test-tube baby clinics

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Portraits of chaos: The latest ideas in geometry are combining with high-tech computer graphics – The results are providing stunning new insights into chaotic motion

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Muck, metals and microbes

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Keep up, catch up or give up: can coral reefs keep pace?

Earth

Gone with the waves

A dam disaster waiting to break: The water stored behind a dam is a potential hazard for people living downstream of the reservoir, in towns and cities as well as out in the country. When the next dam fails, most countries have no plans to cope with the

Who’s counting on krill? Whatever happened to krill? Once they were touted as a vast untapped source of protein, but few took the idea seriously. Yet, down in the Southern Ocean huge fishing fleets are bringing in the krill – despite the fact that no one

Swords into chocolate truffles: The Soviet Union is committed to converting military technology to civilian use, and placing strict environmental controls on industry. Both are proving hard to implement

Clamour for quotas undermines USSR’s green revolution

Measures to make nuclear power safer than ever before

The shelf life of Antarctic ice

Nuclear safety – some like it hot: Nuclear power is not everyone’s favourite source of electricity. The nuclear industry is trying to convince dissenters that high-temperature, gas-cooled reactors could operate more safely and reliably than existing reac

Hunters claim a stake in the forest

Portraits of chaos: The five-dimensional pendulum picture show

Why experiment on human embryos?: The study of ‘spare’ human embryos donated for research will lead to better ways of treating infertility and preventing genetic disease – It is senseless, and unethical, to stop the research while test-tube baby clinics

Portraits of chaos: The latest ideas in geometry are combining with high-tech computer graphics – The results are providing stunning new insights into chaotic motion

Muck, metals and microbes