Cute nightmare

Racoons, once the cute and cuddly pets, have now become a serious threat to agriculture in Japan

Benevolent bacteria

Aerosol advantage

Scientists claim that sulphate aerosols reduce global warming

Cultivating corals

Hot wheels

Tracking the pests

Pesticide resistant flies are observed

Oiled penguins

Pollution tapers off rain

Heating up the red planet

Reclaiming water

What's eating the grasslands?

Pollinators in peril

Frozen for reuse

Disaster in the pipeline

Fire, brimstone and cooling

Large volcanic eruptions contribute significantly to global cooling

Sorting waste

Sands of time

Large portions of cultivable land may be lost to the desert in northwest China by end-1997

Tracking elles

Danger zone

Cancer in children has increased following radioactive leakage from a plant in France

Crying wolf?

A plan to reintroduce wolves in Scotland's forests runs into rough weather

A cleansing effect

A new bacterium can convert a toxic groundwater pollutant into a harmless hydrocarbon

Packaging that melts

Raising a stink

Air quality in poultry farms in Europe suffers badly due to ammonia from chicken droppings

New angle on recycling

Wastefrom animal farms can now be recycled into fish food

No monkey business, this

Monkeys are more knowledgeable than humans about the medicinal value ofplants