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 January 2001, Issue 1

 

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This Month's Features


A potato field decimated by the Colorado Potato Beetle"Humans have been meddling with nature since time immemorial."  Why then is the GMO debate so fierce?  Prof Jennifer Thomson strips the myth from the facts.


Biodiversity of a lakeYou are a nature lover. Its a great day. No wind and just the occasional swish of the line as you cast into the pristine lake...teeming with trout...and pretty much nothing else. Time to mop up the alien fish spill!


A locustGreen Muscle: a biopesticide. A safe, natural alternative to chemical insecticides in the fight against crop-destroying locusts and grasshoppers. 

 

 

Articles in this Issue


SALT South African Large Telescope: A closer look at the "Eye on the sky".  


Greener pastures? Indigenous N'Dama cattle, the better solution for African livestock farmers in the battle against Trypanosomiasis? 


Exciting New coelacanth find off the Kwazulu Natal coast stuns scientists. 


Sunsat: Africa's first Satellite, a bright idea in orbit. See what it sees. 


Science and the African Renaissance: A fresh perspective.  


Table Bay's Penguins safely back home  but can we afford to err again?    

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