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Forum : Land of the rising concrete

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Science : A full Moon warms icy wastes

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Sheep dips poison river life

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Review : Life is a beach

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Into the eye of the storm …

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Crumbling away – Is dredging the villain in the drama of Britain's eroding coasts?

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Lure of the rings - Tree rings laid down over thousands of years may cut through the arguments surrounding global warming. Fred Pearce reports

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Africa overtakes Europe as world birth rate slows

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Can the market cool the world?

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Toxic legacy of Britain's oil boom

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Forum : Silence of the experts - Fred Pearce wonders why government advisers never admit they were wrong

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101 things to do with an old oil rig - Melt it down as scrap? Turn it into a casino? Slice it up and use the bits as oil tanks? Fred Pearce sorts through Shell's options for disposing of Brent Spar

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