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  Tories and Labour renew backing for GM food crops

  5 Jan 2012: Farming minister tells conference GM can help meet rising food demand, while Mary Creagh MP calls for 'open mind' on GM

• Is it an early spring? Yes and no

  3 Jan 2012: Tim Entwisle: In my first winter at Kew it's a bit messy. We have a little early spring, a little late summer and a big dollop of normal winter

• French farmers will have to pay to use their own seeds

  3 Jan 2012: 'Compulsory voluntary contribution' to seed companies extended to 20 more types of crops, and use of saved seeds for other crops banned

• Doodling in maths: Spirals, Fibonacci, and being a plant

  28 Dec 2011:

  Why are four-leafed clovers so exceedingly rare? Fibonacci numbers as seen in plants

• Plantwatch: Traveller's joy and old man's beard herald Father Christmas

  27 Dec 2011: Paul Simons says the long autumn means a splendid year for holly and hawthorn

• Christmas tree rocketry: The art and science of holiday recycling

  26 Dec 2011:

  Christmas is over and now you're confronted with that familiar "elephant in the front room" problem

• Hot? Or not? The economics of red-hot chili peppers

  22 Dec 2011:

  Chilies that produce the hottest fruits grow best when they are given lots of water

• Frankincense production 'doomed'

  21 Dec 2011:

  Numbers of the Boswellia tree, which produces the resin, could be down 90% in 50 years' time, scientists warn

• The science of Christmas trees

  21 Dec 2011:

  Answers to some of your questions about the history and science of Christmas trees

• The week in wildlife – in pictures

  Gallery (16 pictures), 16 Dec 2011:

  The world's smallest frog, a 'walking' lungfish and Christmas gifts for wildlife lovers - the pick of this week's images from the natural world

• The week in wildlife – in pictures

  Gallery (14 pictures), 2 Dec 2011:

  Albino squirrels, snow-diving foxes and a storm of starlings - the pick of this week's images from the natural world

• Unique night-flowering orchid found

  22 Nov 2011: The only orchid among 25,000 species, which flowers for only one night, is found near Papua New Guinea

• The week in wildlife – in pictures

  Gallery (16 pictures), 18 Nov 2011:

  Migrating birds, unseasonally warm weather and an underwater paradise are among the pick of this week's images from the natural world

• Wild flowers are nature's anarchists. Yet today even weeds must conform

  17 Nov 2011: Simon Jenkins: Plants have evolved their own class system. Those of the countryside are treasured, and those 'in the wrong place' villified

• Warm autumn: Help us map your 'weird nature' observations

  Interactive, 16 Nov 2011:

  You've been telling us about the weird occurrences happening in the natural world due to the unusually warm autumn weather - now you can help us document some of these changes by plotting your observations on this collaborative Google map

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