Editorials in 2011

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  • As the year ends, Nature highlights individuals who rose to prominence — or fell from grace.

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  • Brazilian lawmakers should not weaken their stance on deforestation to appease landowners.

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  • President Barack Obama's stance on an emergency contraceptive betrays his promised principles of scientific integrity and sets a troubling precedent for political interference in 'inconvenient' science.

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  • The Durban meeting shows that climate policy and climate science inhabit parallel worlds.

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  • The European Court of Justice was wrong to weigh in on the definition of a human embryo.

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  • Even Japan's political leaders struggle to get answers regarding the Fukushima disaster. It is just the latest example of the government's lack of independent scientific advice.

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  • There are bigger things in the Universe than our earthly worries. Much bigger.

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  • Protected areas are only the start of the road to reforming our relationship with the seas.

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  • With the Leveson inquiry scrutinizing journalistic practice in the United Kingdom, scientists should take the opportunity to fight back against agenda-driven reporting.

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  • Muted media response to the release of more climate e-mails shows science's strength.

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  • The Danish government's plan to axe technology assessment is ill-conceived.

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  • Spain, Italy and Greece all have new governments and new research laws. Despite the pressures of economic austerity, investing in science now could bring disproportionate benefits.

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  • Egypt and Libya can look to the past to help build a more stable future.

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  • By failing to explain why a moratorium on breeding chimpanzees seems not to have been enforced, the US National Institutes of Health risks a further loss of public support for chimp research.

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  • Latest mission to Mars promises close-up view of planet's surface.

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  • US refusal to collaborate with China on space science is short-sighted and misguided, from both a scientific and a pragmatic standpoint.

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  • Demise of snails in a New Zealand freezer is a sign of the times.

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  • Negotiations in Durban over greenhouse-gas emissions should not try to revive Kyoto.

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  • A painstaking study absolves US astronomer Edwin Hubble of censoring a Belgian rival.

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  • Bill Gates gave the G20 summit a workable plan to boost development around the world.

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