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June 2007

Editorial

Off the Scale!

Ted Nield bewails the journalistic persistence of the "Richter Scale"

 

Yes, Prime Ministers

David Shilston takes some former PMs at their word

 

Geonews

Kent rocked

Alice Walker and Roger Musson investigate the Folkestone earthquake of 28 April

 

Radwaste moves

Charles Curtis on the latest developments in radioactive waste management in the UK

 

Features

Terra not so firma

The European Space Agency’s Terrafirma project is poised to deliver a ground movement hazard information service for Europe with millimetre accuracy, reports Chris Browitt et al

 

Science Education Rocks - OK?

Simon Boxall and others on the virtues of getting undergraduate scientists to enthuse the young...

 

ONward, upward

Ted Nield interviews John Simmons FGS, geologist turned film-maker

 

Books & Arts

Reviews - June 2007

Three new books reviewed - by Bernard Leake, Richard Howarth and Fiona Fearnhead

 

Online Special

Greater Manchester

Manchester Masters gains first accreditation, reports Dawne Riddle

 

Continental Tectonics & Mountain Building

Rob Butler reports on a memorable week in Wester Ross

 

Woes of Kilimanjaro "not due to global warming"

The dwindling icecap on Mount Kilimanjaro is being wrongly cited as proof of human-induced global warming, scientists say. Ted Nield reports...

 

Bosumtwi crater gives up its secrets

Joe McCall reports on the findings of a decade long study on the Bsoumtwi Crater, Ghana

 

Chicx comes home to roost

Striking new evidence casts grave doubt on the Chicxulub Crater's popular status as the dinosaurs' nemesis, writes Dwain Eldred

 

Mars at tipping point

Emily Baldwin sails the vanished ocean of Mars

 

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