Lessons for science education: The print media's reporting of the Chernobyl cloud over Britain in 1986

International Journal of Phytoremediation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 125-139

  Cross, Roger T ^a   Price, R F ^a   Zatsepin, V ^a   Gavrilenko, I N ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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EID: 85012488560     PISSN: 15226514     EISSN: 15497879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0263514960140201     Document Type: Article

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