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• Storm clouds gather over leaked climate e-mails

  British climate centre reeling over Internet posting of sensitive material.

  24 November 2009

• Leading British climate centre hacked - Premium content

  E-mails and documents have been taken from the University of East Anglia.

  20 November 2009

• Antarctic temperature spike surprises climate researchers - Premium content

  Polar region was unexpectedly warm between ice ages.

  18 November 2009

• Keeping the young Earth cosy - Premium content

  Fluctuating nitrogen levels may help to keep Earth habitable across eons.

  15 November 2009

• Aftermath of a tsunami - Premium content

  A natural-hazards expert talks about surveying the destruction in Samoa.

  03 November 2009

• Air tides cause landslides - Premium content

  Pressure fluctuations can set slopes in motion.

  01 November 2009

• High hopes for Russia's nanotech firms - Premium content

  But an ambitious government initiative has been slow to incubate a domestic high-tech industry.

  20 October 2009

• EU research programme weighed up and found wanting - Premium content

  Audit criticizes lack of sustainability of EU-funded projects.

  15 October 2009

• Experts draw up ocean-drilling wish list - Premium content

  Researchers seek deeper understanding of crust formation.

  29 September 2009

• German science looks to new political players - Premium content

  Coalition change could affect policies, reports Quirin Schiermeier.

  23 September 2009

• Eastern Europe: Scaling the wall - Premium content

  The collapse of communism opened up the world to scientists from eastern Europe. Quirin Schiermeier talks to researchers about what changed.

  30 September 2009

• Eastern Europe: Beyond the bloc - Premium content

  30 September 2009

• Atmospheric science: Fixing the sky - Premium content

  When nations made plans to save the ozone layer, they didn't factor in global warming. Quirin Schiermeier reports on how two environmental problems complicate each other.

  12 August 2009

• International Polar Year: In from the Cold - Premium content

  As scientists celebrate the end of the International Polar Year, they see causes for concern on the frozen horizon, reports Quirin Schiermeier.

  25 February 2009

• Energy alternatives: Electricity without carbon - Premium content

  13 August 2008

• Climate science: The long summer begins - Premium content

  A research vessel embedded in the thinning Arctic sea ice has a front-row seat for the cryospheric show of the century. Quirin Schiermeier reports from Darnley Bay, Canada.

  16 July 2008

• Water: A long dry summer - Premium content

  In parts of the world already facing unreliable food supplies, an uncertain climate adds to the future stress for soils, plants and people. Quirin Schiermeier reports on water strategies for a drier world.

  19 March 2008

• Earth Monitoring: Observing the ocean from within - Premium content

  05 December 2007

• Russian science: The battle for Russia's brains - Premium content

  The Russian Academy of Sciences has resisted pressure from czarists and communists. Can it thwart the reforms planned by Putin's government? Quirin Schiermeier reports.

  03 October 2007