Contents Vol. 5 N° 1 p 2 - Secrets of the night sky p 10 -
Experts call for glacier research centre for Central Asia p 10 -
Launch of first centre for water law p 11 - UNESCO and Korea to
foster science parks in South p 11 - Grid computing links
Africans to diaspora p 11 - A first intercontinentalbiosphere
reserve p 13 - Research grants for 25 young scientists p 13 -
Sixty years of science at UNESCO p 15 -When is a planet not a
planet? Jean Audouze has the answer p 17 - The sandwatchers p 21
- Helping Africa's ‘best and brighest’ lift science at home p 24
- Diary p 24 - New releases To your telescopes ! Some
governments feel there are too many International Years. It is
true that the new century has already shone the spotlight on
mountains, freshwater, physics and desertification; the
International Union of Geological Sciences is presently gearing
up for the International Year of Planet Earth in 2008. Although
governments propose International Years to the United Nations,
it is in fact largely the scientific