Monthly marathon

01 June 2002
Comments Other It is amazing just how many birds of prey seem to be flying away from you when you first see them. Picture the scene: you are wandering along some desert wadi, scouring the bushes for small migrants, when you take yet another glance upwards. And this t...
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Reviews

01 June 2002
Comments Reviews Edited by P. J. Higgins, J. M. Peter & W. K. Steele. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2001. 1,270 pages; 44 colour plates; numerous linedrawings and maps. ISBN 0-19-553258.9. Hardback, £135.00. The first and largest volume of this mammoth proje...
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News and Comment

01 June 2002
Comments News and comment Plans by the Norwegian multinational company Norsk Hydro for a huge aluminium smelter in Iceland have been shelved: this means that the giant hydroelectric scheme needed to fuel the plant has also been abandoned. It would have been the largest hydro sc...
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