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Antarctic coast
East Antarctica 'is losing ice'
The massive and apparently stable East Antarctic ice sheet is losing mass, a new study suggests.
Greenland ice loss 'accelerating'

CMS inner tracker barrel (Cern) Cern Collider makes fast progress
Researchers working on the Large Hadron Collider are delighted with the progress made since the machine restarted.

Konstantin Feoktistov Ex-USSR cosmonaut Feoktistov dies
The USSR's first civilian cosmonaut, Konstantin Feoktistov, a crew member of the 1964 Voskhod spaceship, dies.

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Tree Frog
Visions of Darwin
Frogs, flowers and insects feature among winners of a museum's competition for photographs inspired by Charles Darwin
A televisual representation of Homo erectus Palaeo-celebrity
A journey to the Java home of an ancient alpha male
Richard Black Earth Watch
Korean model for Obama as Copenhagen looms
Roger Harrabin (BBC) Harrabin's notes
Arguments over hacked climate change e-mails

THE GREEN ROOM
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From space race to human race

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