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Deadly blooms reach Britain's rivers

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Caught in the gold rush - Indigenous peoples claim they are paying the price of the world's gold fever in lost land and poisoned water. Some of them are in London this week to promote their cause

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The rise and rise of Pakistan's people

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. . . now fears grow for unborn babies

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Tough measures to curb acid rain

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BSE may lurk in pigs and chickens

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Ministers hostile to advice on BSE

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Doubts linger over human cases

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Bending the rules on toxic fuels - Campaigners say Britain's air pollution watchdog relaxed safety limits to allow chemical wastes to be burnt in cement kilns

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Big freeze digs a deeper hole in ozone layer

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Where have all the people gone?: The UN's demographic projections are predictably wrong

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Pioneering rainforest project starves to death

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