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Why Some Oceans Could do with a Dose of Iron

Global warming and experiments with carbon dioxide absorption in the ocean

Experiments in adding iron to the ocean to promote algal growth that will absorb some of the carbon dioxide causing global warming. The African dust falling on the Caribbean may be killing off corals. A call to modernise the Nobel Prizes. Why the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) wants rice genetics to become a public-private entertprise. Plus high-quality steel from recycled scrap, and a prize for code-breaking.

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麻豆约拍 World Service Archive

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

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