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Colin Norman reports from Washington on the threat that tuna fishing poses for dolphins

David Merrick considers what economic and technical factors would make the fast breeder reactor a viable option

An agreement by the Ontario government to give a paper company the right to cut timber and build a mill in the largest area of the province ever proposed for such a purpose has caused a storm in the provincial legislature. David Spurgeon reports from Ottawa

Peter Pockley looks at Australian science after 12 months of Mr Fraser's government

Vera Rich looks at a USSR river diversion project which may use nuclear explosions

Gillian Boucher reports on the latest developments in the controversy over the reprocessing of nuclear fuel

Colin Norman reports from Washington on a heavily–criticised study from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Fierce disagreement characterised the debate amongst French scientists about La Soufriére, the volcano in Guadaloupe in the French Antilles. A report from La Recherche:

The National Science Foundation is looking into the possibility of converting the Central Intelligence Agency's Glomar Explorer into a deep sea drilling vessel. Colin Norman reports from Washington.

Nature's Christmas issue a year ago carried an article entitled ‘Naming the Loch Ness monster’. This year, Carl Sagan writes on ‘Detection times and number densities of rare mobile organisms: application to Loch Ness’.

A Correspondent reports on recent developments on the nuclear power front in the German Federal Republic.