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• Hurricanes are getting fiercer

  Global warming blamed for growth in storm intensity.

  03 September 2008

• Russia's international research ties under threat - Premium content

  Responses to Russia's military action in Georgia have implications for non-proliferation, space exploration, climate negotiation and the European Union's framework programme.

  02 September 2008

• Georgian science pays price of conflict - Premium content

  Conflict with Russia puts reforms in jeopardy.

  26 August 2008

• Oil cost hits ship studies - Premium content

  International Polar Year is feeling the pinch.

  23 July 2008

• Science on a melting ice floe - Premium content

  After Russian researchers are evacuated from their Arctic base, one member of the team explains what it was like to spend the winter on ice.

  16 July 2008

• Russia delays Lake Vostok drill - Premium content

  Antarctica's hidden water will keep its secrets for another year.

  16 July 2008

• Shock tactics point to risk after quake - Premium content

  Geologists aim to provide daily hazard maps.

  07 July 2008

• Russian science academy rejects Putin ally - Premium content

  No change at the top as old guard keeps its grip on power.

  04 June 2008

• Climate anomaly is an artefact - Premium content

  Glitch in the twentieth-century climate record is explained.

  28 May 2008

• Poland tackles science like a business - Premium content

  Polish leaders were disconcerted in January, when the nation's scientists came away empty-handed from the first round of applications for the European Research Council's starting-grant competition. The country is also performing poorly in other European Union research programmes (see page 558). Science minister Barbara Kudrycka explains how the Polish government plans to reform the country's science and higher-education system.

  21 May 2008