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Tropical timber tied up in British red tape
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Technology
Technology: Fire-fighters find gas that’s easy on ozone
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Hospital waste: a case for treatment – Dirty old incinerators are the dumping grounds for most clinical waste. Tougher laws are putting pressure on Britain’s hospital managers to clean up their act
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Pollution verdict makes legal history
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Forest clearance threatens ‘treasure island’
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Forum: Conflict looms over troubled waters – Who is paying for the water to be drawn from the well
Review: Timber and destruction
Books & Arts
Technology
Technology: Some light bulbs are less green than they seem . . .
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Up in the air: Two new families of chemicals, the HFCs and the HCFCs, are being introduced as benign replacements for ozone-damaging CFCs. But scientists are still unsure of what the substitutes might do to the terrestrial environment
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