In a statement, the RSPO told Nature that it was prepared to act in serious cases of environmental negligence,
See go. nature. com/gc9i9v for more. www. climatewatch. noaa. gov/imagesus swelters in hottest month ever July was the hottest month ever recorded in the United states
See go. nature. com/g94jrm for more. Agent orange The United states launched an effort on 9 august to clean up dioxin-contaminated soil left over from the Vietnam war at a former American airbase near Da Nang city, Vietnam.
and resulting in a death toll reported at more than 300 people as Nature went to press.
See go. nature. com/r6zcy8 for more. Development work The United nations said on 9 Â August that it is to set up a global network of research centres,
See go. nature. com/z75z8k for more. Russia s space woes Failures in Russia s space launches have drawn the ire of the country s prime minister.
See go. nature. com/adhb1u for more. Battery rescue A123 Systems a leading US manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, may have found a solution to its financial woes.
See go. nature. com/lyzvfe for more. Drug-discovery split Irish pharmaceutical company Elan is to split into two,
go. nature. com/wchcxn; go. nature. com/hyzgdfthe US Department of agriculture predicted on 10 Â August that the nation s maize (corn) yields would drop to a 17-year low in 2012-13 (see chart),
after a catastrophic drought that has scorched fields and sent food prices soaring. The Food and agriculture organization of the united nations has suggested that the United states suspend biofuel production from maize,
although no firm date had been set as Nature went to press. www. nasa. gov/msl19-23 august The American Chemical Society holds its autumn meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
focusing on materials for health and medicine. go. nature. com/tej8lw23-25 august The brain s connectome
saying in a statement to Nature:""Different studies can come to different results, depending on the assumptions used.
See go. nature. com/3zwwq5 for more. India s Mars hopes The Indian cabinet has approved a small,
which has led to many major air carriers refusing to fly primates bound for research centres (see Nature 483,381-382;
) PETA says that China Eastern is the only major airline now known to be flying primates out of China the country that last year transported more than 70%of the primates bound for US labs. See go. nature. com/ckhq93
See go. nature. com/t7am4p for more. Mars landing NASA announced on 6 Â August that its Mars rover,
See page 137 and nature. com/curiosity for more. Higgs papers Researchers at ATLAS and the CMS, the two main physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, posted their papers describing a new Higgs-boson-like
See go. nature. com/ivkhou for more. Olympic biology The UK government plans to transform the London Olympics drug-testing laboratory in Harlow into a national bioanalytics centre,
See go. nature. com/bzrzkc for more. D. PARKER/SPLBERNARD Lovell dies Physicist and radio astronomer Bernard Lovell
See go. nature. com/2dn9hu for more. Cold fusion death Electrochemist Martin Fleischmann who claimed to have discovered cold fusion,
See go. nature. com/cinowb for more. GM patent win One of the largest ever US patent settlements saw biotechnology giant Monsanto awarded $1 Â billion on 1 Â August in a dispute with chemical company Dupont
000) treatment (see Nature 476, 376-377; 2011). ) Dendreon hopes to market the vaccine in Europe by 2013.
See go. nature. com/jj2sky for more. Dark Energy Survey Collaboration/FERMILABFIRST light for dark-energy lens A camera designed to hunt for signs of dark energy
The images from the Dark Energy Survey camera (Nature 489,190-191; 2012), which is mounted on the 4-metre Blanco telescope in Chile,
See go. nature. com/ya5y2p for more. Arctic drilling stops Plans to drill for oil
See go. nature. com/zynxtq for more. Stem-cell funds The European parliament s legal committee has recommended that research involving human embryonic stem cells should not be funded in the European union s upcoming Horizon 2020 research programme.
which ruled on ethical grounds last October that treatments based on such cells were not patentable (see Nature 480,310-312;
See go. nature. com/m38bnp for more. Rainforest threat Deforestation is on the rise again in the Brazilian Amazon.
See go. nature. com/b7ej2p for more. Immigration bill The US House of representatives rejected a bill on 20 september that would have granted permanent residency commonly referred to as green card status to 55
See go. nature. com/hatvjq for more. Arsenic in rice Two US reports have reignited worries about arsenic poisoning from rice
See go. nature. com/puezou for more. Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State Univ. AZT-maker dies Jerome Horwitz, the chemist who inadvertently created the first antiretroviral drug for AIDS,
See go. nature. com/8mkgnf for more. Cancer ambitions A leading US cancer centre said last week that it will spend up to US$3 Â billion over the next ten years on a programme to significantly increase the odds of surviving eight cancers.
See go. nature. com/lrevbl for more. XMRV ruled out The retrovirus XMRV is linked not to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS
See go. nature. com/vadrb7 for more. Source: nsidcarctic sea-ice coverage reached the lowest point of this year s summer melt on 16 Â September, the US National Snow and Ice Data center in Boulder,
In a written response to Nature s questions, Sà ralini and Jo  l Spiroux de Vend Â'mois,
But today in Nature Communications1, Kermode and her colleagues describe how they avoided these modifications.
but research published today in Nature Neuroscience1 reveals the first example of reversible changes to DNA associated with behaviour.
But these mutations cannot fully account for the deadly nature of the transmitted Sw/1204 viruses.
establishing a"pollution diet for the Bay that will help restore the natural habitat for fish and other wildlife.
which will serve as a sanctuary for native Florida plants and wildlife. We have created or enhanced more than 540 public coastal recreation areas,
he has mounted a legal case for consideration by India s Central Empowered Committee (CEC), a panel of experts appointed by the nation s Supreme court to rule on issues concerning forests and wildlife.
and showed to Nature, found illegal saw mills operating in the area, as well as freshly felled logs.
P. B o. Warjri, chief secretary of the government of Meghalaya, told Nature that Gill s claims are"not true.
and go. nature. com/5orvaa for more. Phones and tumours Italy s highest civil court has stated that mobile phones can cause brain tumours to the dismay of medical experts who say no study has proven a clear causal link between health risks
See go. nature. com/bg6zly for more. Biodiversity cash Wealthy nations have agreed to double their support to developing countries for protecting biodiversity
See go. nature. com/ugsflc for more. Biofuels rethink The European commission launched an overhaul of its biofuels policies on 17 Â October,
and concerns that biofuels may produce greater greenhouse-gas emissions than fossil fuels (see Nature http://doi. org/bmssn7;
See go. nature. com/xhgytb for more. Forest-code veto President Dilma Rousseff once more exercised her veto before finally signing off the long-delayed revision of Brazil s forest code into law on 17 october.
which badgers can transmit to cattle (see Nature 490,317-318; 2012) but it will now take place no sooner than next summer.
See go. nature. com/aizbax for more. India GM concerns Prospects for growing genetically modified (GM) food crops in India receded further
See go. nature. com/kovfrc for more. Stem-cell bid Tom Okarma and Michael West
See go. nature. com/tihbe6 for more. Diet-pill concern Europe s drug regulators have recommended against approving a diet pill recently cleared for sale in the United states. The European Medicines Agency s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use
See go. nature. com/mkqsbc for more. Waldrappteamiconic ibis shot A bird that had been reared hand by researchers as part of a project to save a rare species of ibis was killed by poachers in Italy on 13 october.
See go. nature. com/4buekb for more. Vostok lifeless? No native microbes were found by an early analysis of the ice on the drill used by a Russian team to penetrate Lake Vostok, a body of water buried deep under Antarctica s ice, in February.
See go. nature. com/cpe12m for more. UK animal research A poll released on 19 Â October by Ipsos Mori suggests that 63%of people in the United kingdom support animal experimentation where there is no alternative a drop
See go. nature. com/lspaam for more. Chimp haven The US National institutes of health (NIH) said on 17 Â October that it will send 20 Â chimpanzees to permanent retirement in a federally funded sanctuary by August 2013 double the number it announced last month.
See go. nature. com/pytbbu for more
Primates were always tree-dwellersprimates love to climb and most make their homes high up in the branches of trees,
and human consumption (see Nature 467,259; 2010), yet the agency has announced still not a final decision.
including chickens engineered to be resistant to the bird-flu virus. A BBSRC spokesperson told Nature:"
Battles over wildlife management are hardly unique to England. In the United states, environmentalists and ranchers spar over wolves,
probably making it useless for cloning (see Nature 456,310-314; 2008). ) GM study slammed A study claiming that rats fed Monsanto's genetically modified NK603 maize (corn) or its companion glyphosate-based herbicide,
See go. nature. com/cbbiah for more. Fracking furore The US Environmental protection agency (EPA) said last week that data provided by the US Geological Survey were consistent with its December 2011 finding that the use of hydraulic fracturing
but industry officials continue to question the source of the contamination. see go. nature. com/xzorhp for more. UK funding boost The UK government will add £200 million (US$321 million to a fund to promote research partnerships between universities and industry,
Stapel resigned from his post last year after he was found to have fabricated data in some 30 published papers (see Nature 479
Nature went to press before the chemistry prize was awarded, but full details will be available at go. nature. com/5yjkul.
Genius grants The Macarthur Foundation headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, selected its fellows for 2012 on 1 october.
The awards, popularly known as genius grants, come with no strings attached as to how the money is spent. see go. nature. com/ru2vgy for more.
The Ohio Supreme court had found on 18 september that the society's 2002 lawsuit against Leadscope was"objectively baseless (see Nature 489,482-483;
As Nature went to press, the Dragon craft was due to dock with the space station on 10 october.
its Falcon 9 rocket was designed to handle such a problem. see go. nature. com/rvdn4f for more.
but in April ESA lost contact with Envisat, the one satellite providing such data (see Nature 484,423-424;
and are valuable to wildlife, Â and can help in the search for naturally resistant trees.
Nature takes a closer look. Customs officials announced on Tuesday that they had confiscated 1, 500 pieces of tusk at Port Klang, on the west coast of peninsular Malaysia.
an expert on ivory at the wildlife trade-monitoring network TRAFFIC. Still, the bust is clearly not small,
The team works with national agencies such as the Kenya Wildlife Service, as well as Interpol, and Wasser says that it has analysed
The red list of threatened species, drawn up by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, lists African elephants as vulnerable."
She suggests that Neolithic people might have curdled their milk with bacteria that are found in nature, resulting in a clumpy version of modern mozzarella.
Tang did not respond to Nature s request for comments. Tufts University spokeswoman Andrea Grossman said in an official statement that"it would be premature for Tufts University to reach any conclusions before investigations currently underway in the United states are completed.
See go. nature. com/mhxel5 for more. GM study rebutted A final review by the European Food safety Authority (EFSA
has rejected the findings of a controversial paper published in September (see go. nature. com/3slkys) claiming that rats fed genetically modified maize (corn) showed adverse health effects,
and"does not meet acceptable scientific standards is in line with both the EFSA s initial review published in October (see go. nature. com/rypoy5) and assessments by six European union member states.
and major depression (see Nature 482,14-15; 2012). ) The manual is slated to be published by May 2013.
or scientific review (see go. nature. com/ctjei4). The finding comes on the heels of months of controversy about an $18-million unreviewed CPRIT grant to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston (see Nature 486,169-171;
2012). ) Two strikes rule The US National institutes of health has said that it will continue an unpopular policy that prevents grant applicants from resubmitting rejected proposals more than once.
and go. nature. com/pkskun for more. Gene-patent justice The US Supreme court said on 30 Â November that it would reexamine the question of
See go. nature. com/jbqdxl for more. Stem-cell ruling In a landmark decision, the German Federal court of Justice ruled on 27 Â November that patents may be granted on human embryonic stem cells
See go. nature. com/ttnvqa for more. Funder concessions The Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Britain s biggest public funder of physics
The announcement follows protests by scientists in May (see Nature 488,20-22; 2012). ) Science down under The Australian government published its National Research Investment Plan on 28 Â November.
says a 28 Â November report issued by the committees investigating him (see Nature 479,15;
and go. nature. com/6z6u1a for more. Neurologist leaves Sidney Gilman, a neurologist at the University of Michigan in Ann arbor implicated in insider trading,
See go. nature. com/n8tnbi for more. Source: Policy Curesglobal funding for work on neglected diseases totalled US$3. 32 billion in 2011,
7 december Climate negotiators end a fortnight of debate at the United nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Doha. go. nature. com/wnhovv12 December British scientists start 100
buried under more than 3 Â kilometres of ice (see Nature 491,506-507; 2012). ) www. ellsworth. org. uk
See go. nature. com/byj4u8 for more. MIT hacked again The website of the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) in Cambridge was hacked on 22 Â January for the second time in a week.
See go. nature. com/gciolp for more. Stem-cell reforms California s US$3-billion stem-cell agency the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) in San francisco is to reform its governance structure to minimize conflicts of interest,
See go. nature. com/ztij7r for more. Emissions profits Airlines that fly to and from Europe may have profited by up to  1. 36  billion (US$1. 83  billion) last year by raising air fares to cover costs
See go. nature. com/epwshp and page 587 for more. Biodiversity panel The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity
See go. nature. com/5phncw for more. Genomicist dies David Cox, a pioneering genomicist and senior vice-president at the UK-based drug firm Pfizer, died on 22 Â January.
and indexing massive amounts of research data. go. nature. com/e2cn8o7-8 february In Brussels, European union states meet again to negotiate the region s budget for 2014-20,
Talks broke down last year. go. nature. com/2kq2ua
Coffee rust regains footholdwhere there is coffee, there is coffee rust. But the long stalemate between growers and the fungus behind the devastating disease has broken with the fungus taking the advantage.
and its results are published in Nature this week1. Extracting a record of the Eemian was a challenge:
according to the authors of a study reporting the findings in the January 17 issue of Nature.
Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group. But quantifying the properties of superhard materials is a tricky business,
A number of scientific studies have linked neonicotinoids to adverse effects on bee colonies (see Nature video)
EFSA did not respond to Nature's enquiries concerning these allegations. The European commission welcomed the EFSA's assessments.
Santa cruz Biotechnology declined Nature s request for an interview, but stated by e-mail that"all animals maintained at the ranch are reported annually to the  USDA,
See go. nature. com/ouwpo2 for more. Poland GM ban The Polish government on 2 Â January imposed a ban on the cultivation of two genetically modified GM CROPS:
See go. nature. com/8te55t for more. US food safety On 4 january, the US Food and Drug Administration released the first of its long-awaited proposals for protecting food safety.
The company is embroiled in intellectual-property disputes with two other firms in a prenatal genetic testing market potentially worth billions (see Nature 486
-and-gas giant BP (see Nature 491,501; 2012). ) It includes $150 Â million each for the National Academy of Sciences and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation,
to support environmental restoration and protection and health research in the region. Source: MUNICH REAROUND 9, 500 people lost their lives last year in natural disasters less than one-tenth of the ten-year average.
which this year is held jointly with the inaugural International Water Summit. go. nature. com/1b68r116-18 january Experts on gravitational waves discuss frontiers in the field at a meeting in Seoul. go. nature. com/jugqyh
The study is published in Nature today1. The researchers went on to assess how this had affected ecosystems.
Wildlife trade meeting endorses DNA testing of seized ivoryif you go into a bar in Bangkok tonight,
Tom Milliken, who works for the wildlife-trade monitoring group TRAFFIC, which is headquartered in Cambridge,
since 1972 (see Nature 494,13-14; 2013), nor Japan s Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 Â to be launched later this year have sensors that can measure forest biomass with the precision of Biomass, for example.
and the solar monitoring and aerosol mission Glory (see Nature http://doi. org/bqjhn7; 2011).
and his co-authors supplied to Nature, they seem to fall within the highest risk areas for H5n1.
An international team of researchers compiled maps for Nature showing the population densities of chickens, pigs, ducks and humans in many parts of China and throughout Asia.
One map supplied to Nature by the researchers shows, they note, that eastern China the epicentre of the current H7n9 outbreaks is one of the world's busiest hubs for airline traffic.
and colleagues point out in a World view in Nature this week, The first human case of H7n9 outside Mainland china is perhaps only a matter of time.
has backed the use of a mixture of conventional and renewable energy sources to meet demand (see Nature 494,409-410;
See go. nature. com/xgnin4 for more. Rocket launch The Antares rocket built by Orbital Sciences of Dulles, Virginia,
See go. nature. com/b6oeoz for more. Lawsuit settlement Cancer researcher Philippe Bois has settled a lawsuit against the US Department of health and human services (DHHS) over scientific misconduct, according to an announcement on 18 Â April.
See go. nature. com/yxeciw for more. Natasha Gilbertafrican agriculture African farmers must use sustainable and environmentally friendly technologies to reverse rising hunger levels across the continent,
See go. nature. com/czdx9k for more. US$674 billion The amount spent last year finding
Maryland. go. nature. com/wfnyw227-30 april Flu pandemics, the resurgence of measles and antimicrobial resistance are discussed all at the European Society of Clinical Microbiology
and Infectious diseases meeting in Berlin. go. nature. com/jyfhwf
Europe debates risk to beesdebate over neonicotinoids has become fierce. Conservation groups and politicians in the United kingdom and Europe have called for a ban on their use,
No one from DEFRA was available to talk to Nature. Goulson and others say that intensive environ  mental monitoring of neonicotinoids
and Policy in Minneapolis. As Nature went to press, 24 human cases, including 8 Â deaths,
Researchers working on the molecular biology of the virus say that it seems to derive from a reassortment of genetic material from at least three known bird-flu groups (see Nature http//doi. org/k4j;
See nature. com/scipublishing for Nature s special on open access and the future of publishing.
See go. nature. com/z23dot for more. Aurora Photos/Alamyus waterways in bad shape More than half of US rivers and streams are in a poor environmental condition,
See go. nature. com/ymiwgi for more. Deep-sea dive The film-maker James cameron is donating his deep-sea submersible to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts,
See go. nature. com/hhsks8 for more. NICE head departs The head of the National Institute for Health
See go. nature. com/37lsu2 for more. Yasuyoshi Chiba/FAOLOCUST plague The worst locust plague to hit Madagascar in decades prompted the United nations on 26 Â March to call for US$41 Â million in funding from donors to implement immediate emergency and longer
was in a critical condition as Nature went to press. See go. nature. com/cpusui for more.
Patent blocked India s Supreme court ruled on 1 Â April against an attempt by Swiss drug company Novartis to patent the anticancer drug Gleevec (imatinib mesylate.
See go. nature. com/csqesi for more. GM crop deal Two agricultural biotechnology giants agreed on 26 Â March to settle a lengthy legal battle over patent rights to next-generation genetically modified (GM) soya beans.
and"the increasing dominance of first-year ice in the Arctic. 6-10 april Discussions on mapping the epigenomes of cancer take place at the American Association for Cancer Research s annual meeting in WASHINGTON DC. go. nature. com
Louisiana. go. nature. com/xgylsf8-19 april The United nations Forum on Forests meets in Istanbul, Turkey;
it will discuss progress on a 2007 commitment to manage forests sustainably. go. nature. com/potx5i
Laura Leon/Polaris/eyevineendangered ecosystems get listed The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on 8 may updated the criteria for its Red List of Ecosystems (D. Â A. Â Keith et
the new list ranks ecosystems using factors such as rate of shrinkage, disruption to wildlife and risk of ecosystem collapse.
and depleting native wildlife. Polio in Somalia Somalia has recorded its first case of wild poliovirus since March 2007
As Nature went to press, genetic testing was under way to determine the virus s origin. The only other countries that have recorded wild poliovirus cases in 2013 are Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria,
See go. nature. com/x43baq for more. Neuroscience goal Researchers met for the first time to begin planning the US National Science Foundation s part in the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies initiative an ambitious bid to understand the brain s signals
See go. nature. com/xgsrwa for more. Campus upset University college London (UCL) announced on 7  May that it has abandoned plans to build a £1-billion (US$1. 54-billion) campus on a site in east London that is currently a residential estate.
See go. nature. com/uil764 for more. Source: HEIDI LARSON/LANCET INFECT. DIS. An online media surveillance tool can track concerns
and their dogs so they teamed up with Alex Greenwood, head of the wildlife diseases department at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin,
See go. nature. com/zsavjr for more. Satellite launch China has launched the first in its series of next-generation civilian Earth-observing satellites.
and death of stars (see Nature 495, 151-152; 2013). ) Helium sales US legislators voted on 26 Â April to continue selling federal helium gas reserves.
See go. nature. com/12bxfm and page 6 or more. HCFC deal China will receive up to US$385 million over the next 17 Â years from the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol to stop industrial production of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCS.
See go. nature. com/5rzlbk for more. Pesticide ban In an effort to protect bees,
See Nature 496 408 (2013) and go. nature. com/apvdlf for more. Hannah Hoagfreshwater lifeline Ontario s government threw a lifeline to Canada s Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) on 24 Â April.
Funding shortages led the Canadian government to close the freshwater research facility (pictured) in March.
See go. nature. com/q39xpw for more. Hepatitis drug A new hepatitis-C drug sofosbuvir, has been found to be highly effective in clinical trials.
See go. nature. com/fpasug and page  18 for more. GM salmon Genetically modified (GM) salmon have moved one step closer to US grocery stores.
The case is touted as the first time that a scientist has gone to trial over an accident in a US academic lab. See go. nature. com/738hpf for more.
See go. nature. com/4mught for more. Source: ORITHE office that oversees misconduct investigations involving US-government-funded biomedical researchers has seen the number of allegations it has received since 2001 rise by 216%.
Canada. go. nature. com/enai636-8 may Darmstadt, Germany, hosts the first international meeting on research into ocean colour science:
and other activity from colour. go. nature. com/ubntid
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