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Time to re-think Biofuels

Report warns trends in biofuels could cause food security and environmental problems

Royal Society report warns that the adoption of biofuels could cause food security and environmental problems, as well as fail to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Nasa's Messenger probe sends back photographs of Mercury. The gene that can put more vitamin A into maize and so improve human health. Why astrobiologists are studying Pitch Lake, a natural body of emulsified ashphalt in Trinidad. The secrets of the striped hyena's behaviour. A giant self-destructing palm discovered in Madagascar has been named Tahina spectabilis.

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26 minutes

成人快手 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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