A World of Science (April–June 2009)

Contents Vol. 7 n° 2

IN FOCUS
2 The thrill of drilling

NEWS
10 Poles warming faster than expected
10 Denmark gets behind climate change education
11 Ten years to save coral reefs
12 Awards for exceptional women
12 2011 to be Year of Chemistry
13 Pierre Auger Observatory inaugurated
13 Optics prize for Iranian

INTERVIEW
16 Jacques Weber on why the financial crisis is also an opportunity

HORIZONS
16 Tending to the 'ailing mother river of China'
19 Of shipwrecks, lost worlds and grave robbers

IN BRIEF
24 Diary
24 New releases