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Articles in March, 2008 issue of Geographical

• Wait and sea
  by Geordie Torr
• Where in the world?
• Coral decline linked to human activity
• Are tropical forests really disappearing?
• Dam threatens Patagonian wilderness
  by Mark Rowe
• Cutting a path through Indonesian forest
• Rising groundwater threatens Egyptian antiquities
• Increased government spending on healthcare for China's 1.3 billion people has led to a rise in life expectancy and a drop in infant and maternal mortality, claims a report released by the Chinese Ministry of Health
• Construction work has begun on a 10,000-kilometre submarine cable network off the east coast of Africa that will improve access to high-capacity telecommunications infrastructure for 250 million Africans in 22 countries
• The Scottish Wildlife Trust and the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland have applied to the government of Scotland for a licence to release 20 beavers in Argyll next year
• Authorities in China are cracking down on the use of plastic bags, banning the production of the thinnest brands and forbidding shops to issue free bags to customers
• A new species of palm, believed to be one of the world's largest flowering plants, has been discovered in the forests of Madagascar by a French cashew plantation owner
• 'Population emergency' brewing in Africa
• Top 10 largest refugee to nationalities
• Plate tectonics sometimes takes time off
• Protecting peatlands could cut carbon emissions by 10 per cent
• Looking back to 2007, a year of extremes
• California sues government
• Green light for coal-fired power station
• British coastal waters warming
• Waxy cuticles to cure climate change?
• Biotech could make chemical production carbon neutral
• Sir Edmund Hillary: 20 July 1919-11 January 2008
  by Nick Smith
• Uruguay
  by Klaus Dodds
• Transportation: international trade, travel and a growing dependence on motor vehicles make transportation one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions
• Causeway coast: the jewel in the crown of this impressive Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the rugged Antrim coast is the internationally renowned Giant's Causeway. But as Christian Amodeo discovers, the road to the provision of adequate protection f
  by Christian Amodeo
• Tracing the map girls' wartime journeys
• Event of the month
• A selection of March's events
• Captain Scott's provisions: bags of food found at the British explorer's final camp on his ill-fated South Pole expedition
• Earthly beauty
  by Klaus D. Francke
• Shifting sands: mining the seabed for sand and gravel for use in construction is a major industry in the UK. But while the official line from the government and the mining industry is that damage is inconsequential, environmental groups are voicing concer
  by Mark Rowe
• From fury to terror: Francis Crozier is the forgotten man of Arctic and Antarctic discovery. Despite being at the centre of the three great endeavours of 19th-century polar exploration—the Northwest Passage, the North Pole and Antarctica—this re
  by Michael Smith
• Village of the dammed: the town of Djenne in Mali, home to the world's largest mud building, is facing an environmental crisis. As parts of Africa recover from some of the worst flooding seen on the continent for more than a decade, Djenne is grappling wi
  by Ben Willis
• Hello sunshine: as the world searches for a clean, renewable energy source to replace our dwindling fossil fuel reserves, the sun is the obvious choice. But harnessing solar energy on a large scale has been complex and largely commercially unviable—u
  by Matthew Brace
• A marriage of convenience: Taiwan's indigenous peoples face an uncertain future as young people increasingly desert their villages in search of work and a more modern lifestyle in the cities. But, as Nick Haslam discovers, one tribe has found a unique way
  by Nick Haslam
• Voyages of discovery
• Confessions of an Eco-sinner: Travels to Find Where My Stuff Comes From
  by Mick Herron
• Across the Tibetan Plateau: Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Conservation
  by Jonathan Wright
• The Wrong Kind of Snow: The Complete Daily Companion to the British Weather
  by Mick Herron
• The Seventy Wonders of China
  by Mick Herron
• Top 10 writer's reads
  by Adam Jacot de Boinod
• Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
  by Jules Stewart
• Global 200: Places That Must Survive
  by Jonathan Wright
• From a Persian Tea House
  by Nick Smith
• Beyond Seven Years in Tibet
  by Nick Smith
• Silk Route Adventure
  by John Hare
• Keeping it simple: for more intrepid adventurers, getting back to nature' means precisely that, as they eschew the technological trappings of the modern world in favour of robust, uncomplicated gear. Bushcraft expert Ben McNutt, a firm believer in the low
  by Ben McNutt
• Ten of the best: keeping it simple doesn't necessarily mean that you have to compromise on quality. Here's a selection of low-tech items that will help to make your next foray into in the wilderness a little easier
• Cottoning on: whether it's the disastrous environmental problems associated with its production or the aggressive trade tactics regularly employed by some of its producers, cotton presents consumers with an ethical minefield. But thanks to a series of new
  by Victoria Lambert
• Nature's colour palette: with warmer weather on its way, the British landscape is about to burst into colour. So it's time to break the macro lens and tripod, find a flower and start snapping
  by Keith Wilson
• Ice on the equator
  by James Potter
• The scale of the problem
  by Tony Theaker
• Hamming it up
  by A.K. Casswell
• Inspiring initiative
  by Colin Manvell
• A step in the right direction
  by Andrew Burke
• Nigel Vardy
  by Natalie Hoare