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• Fatal frog fungal disease figured out - Premium content

  Electrolyte imbalance stops amphibians' hearts.

  22 October 2009

• Potato blight's gene weaponry revealed - Premium content

  Jumping genes may hold key to defeating mould that caused Irish famine.

  09 September 2009

• Frog serenade foiled - Premium content

  Amphibians raise their pitch to counter traffic noise.

  25 August 2009

• Staving off ecological disaster in lungs - Premium content

  Protecting the lung's 'ecosystem' may help cystic fibrosis patients.

  07 August 2009

• Weighing up the G8's promises to poor countries - Premium content

  Nature News talks to Namanga Ngongi about the billions of dollars pledged for food security.

  17 July 2009

• Chemistry publisher moving towards online-only journals - Premium content

  American Chemical Society puts squeeze on print editions.

  17 June 2009

• Vegetation may not slow wave erosion - Premium content

  Soil type may be more important than plant cover in preventing coast edges washing away.

  08 June 2009

• Bill Chadwick - Premium content

  A volcanologist reveals how undersea eruptions can be a boon for some species.

  08 May 2009

• Even big societies feel the pinch - Premium content

  American Chemical Society makes cutbacks to fight financial losses.

  06 May 2009

• Life thrives beneath Antarctic glacier - Premium content

  Unique chemistry enables microbes to survive harsh conditions.

  16 April 2009

• Biodiversity: Putting a price on nature - Premium content

  Gretchen Daily knows the value of ecosystems — but can ascribing financial worth to them help to maintain biodiversity? Emma Marris meets an ecosystem-services evangelist.

  18 November 2009

• Conservation biology: Reflecting the past

  Unsatisfied with merely halting environmental destruction, some conservationists are trying to reconstruct ecosystems of the past. Emma Marris travels back in time with the rewilders.

  04 November 2009

• Ecology: Ragamuffin Earth - Premium content

  A small group of ecologists is looking beyond the pristine to study the scrubby, feral and untended. Emma Marris learns to appreciate 'novel ecosystems'.

  22 July 2009

• Forestry: Planting the forest of the future - Premium content

  While conservation biologists debate whether to move organisms threatened by the warming climate, one forester in British Columbia is already doing it. Emma Marris reports.

  17 June 2009

• Conservation: The genome of the American West - Premium content

  What does it mean to save a species? For some, preserving the American bison means keeping its genome pure, finds Emma Marris.

  18 February 2009

• Agronomy: Five crop researchers who could change the world - Premium content

  The current crisis in worldwide food prices reinforces the need for more productive agriculture. Emma Marris meets five ambitious scientists determined to stop the world from going hungry.

  03 December 2008

• Ecology: The heart of the wood - Premium content

  BiaBowie|a is one of the best-preserved woodlands in Europe. But is it a good reference point for what Europe looked like 5,000 years ago? Emma Marris goes deep into the forest to find out.

  17 September 2008

• Energy: Upgrading the grid - Premium content

  Electricity grids must cope with rising demand and complexity in a changing world. Emma Marris explores the intricacies involved in controlling the power supply.

  30 July 2008

• Language: The language barrier - Premium content

  Some researchers think that the evolution of languages can be understood by treating them like genomes #20; but many linguists don't want to hear about it. Emma Marris reports.

  21 May 2008

• Water: More crop per drop - Premium content

  Farmers' yields in the developing world are often limited by unreliable rains. Improving their harvests will require plant breeders, agronomists and geneticists to pull together - but can these experts work out their differences? Emma Marris reports.

  19 March 2008