Contents Conservation | Vol. 10 No. 4 | October-December 2009
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Be Fruitful & Multiply?
Population growth, from an environmental viewpoint, has always seemed like an open-and-shut case. Less is more. But what if that equation has changed? By David Malakoff page 41
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Fish-free fish feed
A new generation of unruly adolescent wildlife has some experts wondering whether what we’re missing isn’t so much habitat as adult supervision.
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Another black mark for biofuels
By Dawn Stover
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Invasive species love a recession
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Frog legs: yummy but deadly
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Designing an artificial river
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38 Innovations
Up on the Farm Growing 11,000 heads of lettuce in a space the size of five parking spots
Shipwreck unleashes mysterious plague
Sick Puppies Prairie dogs served up Jell-O spiked with ‘black death’ vaccine
Carbon sinks under Antarctic ice
Electric Sweat Synthetic leaf generates power with tiny beads of water
An Ounce of Prevention High-tech chip delivers early diagnosis of coral disease
Invasion of the Flying Fish A wall of bubbles could stop the onslaught of millions of Asian carp
A Shady Scheme Radical plan would grow a massive forest in the Sahara to cool the planet
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Think Again
A radical alternative to marine reserves
Lighten Up Cartoons by Sidney Harris
Essay
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Survivor By Eric Roston
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Book Marks Shades of Green Stewart Brand’s challenge to environmentalists
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Troubled Teens
New twist on cold war
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Cities store more CO2 than tropical rainforests
The (Un)Natural Order of Things
Have we unwittingly exchanged the language of the living world—the names of real plants and animals—for a vocabulary of Tony the Tigers and Geico geckos? By Carol Kaesuk Yoon
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Plus: Elephants on the Edge, No Impact Man, Picturing Climate Change, and more
From Readers
Bathtub Analogy Doesn’t Hold Water By William L. Chameides
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