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• G8 leaders fail to agree on carbon cuts before 2050

  Summit declaration says 2 °C warming must be avoided.

  09 July 2009

• Czech researchers angry over government changes - Premium content

  Reform reshuffles budgets for science and industry.

  08 July 2009

• Last weather ship faces closure - Premium content

  Oceanographers rally to try to save Norwegian vessel.

  09 June 2009

• Historic deal for German science - Premium content

  Eleventh-hour agreement secures billions of euros for research.

  05 June 2009

• Crunch time for German science programmes - Premium content

  Billions of euros in university funding could be delayed or lost.

  01 June 2009

• Russia makes major shift in climate policy - Premium content

  Putin emphasizes the need for action on global warming.

  26 May 2009

• Ozone data conflict resolved - Premium content

  Disturbing laboratory measurements put down to impurities

  07 May 2009

• China's greener future? - Premium content

  Cutting carbon emissions need not slow economic growth, Beijing told.

  28 April 2009

• Little progress seen at climate talks - Premium content

  Money and targets separate developed and developing countries.

  14 April 2009

• Stern message for G20 summit - Premium content

  Stimulus packages must focus more resources on clean energy and averting climate change, report says.

  30 March 2009

• International Polar Year: In from the Cold

  As scientists celebrate the end of the International Polar Year, they see causes for concern on the frozen horizon, reports Quirin Schiermeier.

  25 February 2009

• Energy alternatives: Electricity without carbon

  13 August 2008

• Climate science: The long summer begins - Premium content

  A research vessel embedded in the thinning Arctic sea ice has a front-row seat for the cryospheric show of the century. Quirin Schiermeier reports from Darnley Bay, Canada.

  16 July 2008

• Water: A long dry summer - Premium content

  In parts of the world already facing unreliable food supplies, an uncertain climate adds to the future stress for soils, plants and people. Quirin Schiermeier reports on water strategies for a drier world.

  19 March 2008

• Earth Monitoring: Observing the ocean from within - Premium content

  05 December 2007

• Russian science: The battle for Russia's brains - Premium content

  The Russian Academy of Sciences has resisted pressure from czarists and communists. Can it thwart the reforms planned by Putin's government? Quirin Schiermeier reports.

  03 October 2007