Early end for tankers
The International Maritime Organization voted on 4 December to ban single-hulled oil tankers carrying heavy fuel oil from 2010, five years earlier than planned. The European Union lobbied for the move, to prevent more oil spills like the one last year from the wreck of the Prestige.
Gene rebel fights back
Plant biologist Ignacio Chapela has had tenure refused by the University of California, Berkeley. Chapela was the researcher at the centre of a row over genetically modified crops that last year culminated in the journal Nature disowning his paper after publication. He is not going…
