In the end, it was really no contest.
On the one hand there were the seven academies of science from the worlds leading industrial powers plus those of Russia,
In May 2003 I travelled to the far northern islands of Svalbard with a group of scientists, artists, musicians and writers. We went to look at the effects of climate
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The counter represents the rising concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earths atmosphere, minute by minute, from
* Vince Medeiros speaks to Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa (Brazil)
Pedro Costa, 37, left a secure job as a cook in Rio de Janeiro to fight for agrarian reform with Brazil
The tsunami that swept across the Indian ocean on 26 December 2004 was cataclysmic. Our Globalisation Editor Caspar Henderson asks what it means for the future of an interconnected world.
1. Fukuyamas moment: a neocon schism opens
28 October
The man who declared the end of history and joined the inside track on United States foreign policy turns on
When the fourstar German general Klaus Reinhardt arrived in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in 1993 to enforce the peace with a contingent of several thousand German troops, he
Caspar Henderson visits a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean state of Palau to help protect coral reefs against the effects of global climate change. In the process he encounters
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The Day After Tomorrow is rated PG-13. Millions of people die, but nobody swears, copulates, undresses or takes
On 26 April Brazil won a preliminary ruling at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that requires the United States to lower the subsidies it pays farmers to grow cotton.
Peter
The life and work of Sayyid Abdul-Majid Khoei, one of Iraqs leading Shia clerics, was remembered by friends and political allies at an event in north London on
In Britain, train crashes kill on average one or two dozen people every year. Road traffic accidents kill dozens every week.
But a single fatal train wreck can occupy the
