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First uk tsunami expert to visit Maldives

An expert on tsunamis from the University of St Andrews will head off to the Maldives this weekend to investigate the impact of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Boxing Day last year.

Managing impact of environmental change

A new course aimed at meeting industry's demand for solutions to a growing number of costly environmental problems is to be launched by the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee.

Tackling alarming loss of species

The world's Governments may not be able to reach international targets for saving plant and animal species and their habitats because there are no reliable measurements of the rate at which they are disappearing, the Royal Society warned today (15th October 2002).