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Keyword - Pollution
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Atmospheric science: Cloudy, with a chance of science - Premium content
When American and Chinese scientists agreed to measure pollution and dust over China, nobody foresaw how difficult it would be. Jane Qiu reports.
23 September 2009
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Funding struggle for mercury monitoring - Premium content
Researchers look to quantify pollution levels.
3 June 2009
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Platinum pollution issue gets measured - Premium content
Demand for catalytic converters has spread osmium around the globe.
20 April 2009
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Rising air pollution clouds climate debate - Premium content
Darker skies have uncertain effect on global warming.
12 March 2009
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Nitrogen fertilizer warning for China - Premium content
Farmers could cut use by two-thirds without lowering crop yield.
16 February 2009
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India's drug problem - Premium content
Chemists show how waste-water contamination affects ecosystem.
4 February 2009
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Whatever happened to &? - Premium content
As the year draws to a close, Nature looks back on a selection of news stories to find out what happened next.
30 December 2008
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Urea pollution turns tides toxic - Premium content
Kamikaze gulls that inspired Hitchcock's The Birds may have been doomed by leaky septic tanks.
27 October 2008
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How pollution influences the weekend weather - Premium content
The effects of weekday emissions differ from country to country.
11 August 2008
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Climate war games - Premium content
Role-play negotiations test the outcomes of global warming.
5 August 2008
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China: Visions of China - Premium content
Can the Chinese government meet its ambitious targets on space, the environment, research, energy and health? David Cyranoski takes a look at China today and what it hopes to be tomorrow.
23 July 2008
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'Fundamentally flawed' US pollution law thrown out - Premium content
16 July 2008
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US court slaps down pollution law - Premium content
Major clean-air programme is now in limbo.
11 July 2008
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Bacteria designed to search out pesticides - Premium content
Biological switch triggers E. coli to swim towards chemical.
9 April 2008
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How pollution can help to clean the air - Premium content
Hydroxyl radicals, nature's atmospheric scrubbers, are produced by nitrogen pollution too.
20 March 2008
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Nitrogen pollution stomps on biodiversity - Premium content
Long-term effects of low-level pollution may have been underestimated.
6 February 2008
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Sunscreen wipes out corals - Premium content
Study shows how chemicals can kill symbiotic algae.
29 January 2008
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Air pollution causes sperm mutations - Premium content
Male mice breathing city air carry more mutations.
13 January 2008
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China bows to public over chemical plant - Premium content
Environmental protesters score landmark victory.
9 January 2008
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Plants purify poisoned water - Premium content
Ferns suck up arsenic quickly and cheaply.
12 May 2004
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