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News
Dengue programmes 'too paternalistic'
Routine responses to dengue fever are top-down, which discourages individual engagement in control strategies, says a study.
10 March 2010
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Farmers blamed in Thai rice pest invasion
Ecologists say Thailand's deadly outbreak of brown planthoppers has been caused by farmers' response to high rice prices .
3 March 2010
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Scientists scathing on coastal tree planting
19 February 2010
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Tsunami alerts must be tailored to people, says report
25 January 2010
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Features
Life as a scientist in South-East Asia
From Cambodia to Singapore, Shiow Chin Tan finds the situation for scientists varies enormously across South-East Asia.
Arsenic: when will the clean water start flowing?
Many new technologies have promised to remove arsenic from drinking water but little has changed on the ground, finds T. V. Padma.
24 November 2009
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Editorial
Two cultures but one message for climate change
Tackling recent controversies about climate change data requires a robust partnership between the natural and social sciences.
Opinions
GM crops: still not a panacea for poor farmers
GM crops have been hailed as a 'pro-poor' technology, but the reality is much more complicated, says technology researcher Dominic Glover.
CGIAR reforms make research decision-making distant
CGIAR reforms take research decisions too far away, says Hartmann, director-general of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).
6 October 2009
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