Drug-pollution law all washed up
Europe is set to quash a precedent-setting initiative designed to tackle a disturbing side effect of common drugs — their impact on aquatic life. Nature has learned that landmark regulations intended to
Natasha Gilbert
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Palm-oil boom raises conservation concerns
Palm oil was once touted as a social and environmental panacea — a sustainable food crop, a biofuel that could help to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and a route out of poverty for small-scale farmers. In
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Rio report card
The world has failed to deliver on many of the promises it made 20 years ago at the Earth summit in Brazil.
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Development project touts health victory
For villagers in Mwandama, Malawi, visiting a health worker used to mean a daunting 40-kilometre round trip on foot. So the medical centre that was built in the area as part of the Millennium Villages
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Water under pressure
A UN analysis sets out global water-management concerns ahead of Earth Summit.
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Rules tighten on use of antibiotics on farms
Alarmed at signs that the overuse of antibiotics in farm animals is blunting these key weapons against human disease, governments are taking action.
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Herbal medicine rule book
Can Western guidelines govern Eastern herbal traditions?
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Summit urged to clean up farming
Leading scientists say that agriculture is a ‘poor relation’ in global-warming negotiations.
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Drug waste harms fish
Discharges from pharmaceutical factories contaminate rivers on three continents.
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Data gaps threaten chemical safety law
<p> European companies are not providing robust information to regulators or alternatives to animal experiments.</p> <p> <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110713/full/475150a.html">http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110713/full/475150a.html</a></p>