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Spunky food

Lomborg disproved

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World

Agony and ecstasy

Sex determination and stress

Happy hunting grounds

Look before you leap

Denmark has for the first time introduced a law relating to the transfer of polluting technologies to other countries

Bridge to nowhere

Sweden and Denmark, two of the world's most eco-friendly countries, compromise on environment to go ahead with the construction of Europe's …

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Green tag sells

Bridge over troubled waters

Sweden's environment minister resigns over the government's plan to build a bridge-and-tunnel link with Denmark

Pregnancy and cancer

Bug exterminators

Mammograms linked to overdiagnosis, overtreatment of breast cancer: study

Women are unnecessarily treated with anti-cancer therapies, including chemotherapy, for tumours that would never have caused a health problem

Playing dice with development

Like all such meetings before, the UN World Summit in Copenhagen had to address the needs of the commoner, the bedrock of all nations

Confusions over green tax

An ambitious Danish green tax has few takers, especially in the industrial sector

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Appeal by NGOs

Windfall

The year 1998 saw a record production of wind energy

Meat of the problem

Antibiotic resistant bacteria in meat on the rise

Much heat generated over energy tax proposal

The proposed energy tax has run into heavy weather in Europe, despite strong backing from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.

Evolving green strategies

Towards cheaper fuel

Mission fulfilled

After a successful anti-nuclear energy campaign, a Danish group is happy to fade into history