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• Curbing population growth crucial to reducing carbon emissions - Premium content

  Access to contraception could tackle global warming, says United Nations.

  18 November 2009

• Efforts to sustain biodiversity fall short - Premium content

  But the issue is gaining attention as nations prepare for next year's summit.

  18 November 2009

• Wellcome Trust makes it personal in funding revamp - Premium content

  People not projects are the focus of longer-term grants.

  11 November 2009

• Brussels concedes to European Research Council reform - Premium content

  Top scientist will take over management and administration of funding body.

  22 October 2009

• UK faces tough questions over research funding - Premium content

  Universities told international collaborations will be key.

  16 October 2009

• Science journals crack down on image manipulation - Premium content

  US figures show that incidents have jumped in the past two years.

  09 October 2009

• Radical shift proposed for funding European research - Premium content

  Half of EU research budget should be spent on frontier science, say science advisers.

  06 October 2009

• A Conservative approach to British science - Premium content

  How would research change under a centre-right government?

  02 October 2009

• Climate change will hit developing world harvests hardest

  Report quantifies link between global warming and food security.

  30 September 2009

• Sex chromosomes linked to evolution of new species - Premium content

  Questions over conflict of the sexes remain.

  27 September 2009

• Environment: The disappearing nutrient - Premium content

  Phosphate-based fertilizers have helped spur agricultural gains in the past century, but the world may soon run out of them. Natasha Gilbert investigates the potential phosphate crisis.

  07 October 2009