Planet Earth - Winter 2003
NERC's award-winning free magazine, Planet Earth, is aimed at non-specialists with an interest in environmental science.
This issue is no longer in print.
* Unless specified, all articles are less than 1MB in size.
Leader - Decisions, decisions (*1·0MB) Do you know how often NERC science is used in making difficult decisions? Probably not, writes chief executive John Lawton.
An ancient source of a modern poison Dioxins aren't just a modern phenomenon.
The Greys came armed and ready for combat (*1·2MB) In the battle for Britain, the grey squirrel has an unseen advantage.
Spotting puddles from space (*1·1MB) Earth observation techniques can spot losses from the UK water system.
Early warning systems for landfill pollution (*2·1MB) Using Earth observation to prevent pollution from landfill sites.
Flowers under threat (*6·4MB) Calcareous grasslands soak up nitrogen pollution, but this threatens the plants.
Nitrogen - the perspective from Boulder Ledge A saxifrage's eye view of nitrogen pollution.
When plants invaded the land There's evidence that it was 50 million years earlier than we thought.
GM Crop trials (*3·0MB) How do GM crops affect wildlife.
The great escape? (*4·2MB) Could modified genes go wild in the country?.
Something in the water It rains heavily in Ireland - literally.
Antifreeze for snowball Earth (*5·5MB) Does complex life stop the planet freezing over?
Essential minerals and precious metals (*3·2MB) Could the West run out of minerals?
Airborne remote sensing in the frozen north (*4·5MB) Remote sensing in its truest sense
Perfect day (*6·4MB) Sick of the cloudy weather at the weekend? It's probably our own fault.
The Whitehouse Effect (*3·4MB) A new frontier in simulation and prediction of the atmosphere.
Falkland fossils (*2·4MB) How a chance gift provided evidence for plate tectonics and continental drift.
Fighting relatives (*2·5MB) Do closely related creatures compete more intensely than distant relatives?