NERC NEWS Spring 2000 NERC News is the quarterly magazine of the Natural Environment Research Council. It is aimed at non-specialists and is available free of charge. Leaf shapes and climate clues. Kate Ravilious uses fossil leaves to understand past climate. Ian Jones's research is revealing the normal function of prion proteins.
Science meets policy .
Les Firbank explains how farm scale trials can help the government to develop its policy on GM crops. Jenny Clack introduces the fossils that show how the first land animals developed. Ernest Shackleton's first voyage. Frank Curry and Mike Glostein celebrate a new ship for the British Antarctic Survey. How crabs moult.