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Volume 1 Issue 708, August 2007

Editorial

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Research Highlights

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News Feature

  • Recently revisited as a quick fix for global warming, 'geoengineering' could rapidly cool the climate but might also play havoc with the planet. Hannah Hoag reports.

    • Hannah Hoag
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  • Scientists claim to have located the 'missing carbon sink' in tropical forests that are absorbing around one billion tonnes more carbon than previously thought. Jane Burgermeister investigates.

    • Jane Burgermeister
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  • Wind-blown dust from the Southwest US is shortening seasonal snow cover in Colorado's ski resorts.

    • Dan Whipple
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  • Companies worldwide are now competing to cut their carbon emissions, but is this trend one of environmental concern, hard-headed business or careful PR? Kurt Kleiner investigates.

    • Kurt Kleiner
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Authors

  • A study challenges the method used to estimate carbon transport by phytoplankton to the deep sea.

    • Andrew Yool
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  • Migrant icebergs are hot spots of ocean production, enhancing export of organic carbon to the deep sea.

    • Kenneth L. Smith
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