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Almost unnoticed, Nepal is developing simple and cheap technologies that make the best of local resources and don't damage the environment.

The political effect on the United States of its failure to anticipate Hurricane Katrina's full impact will hopefully generate a more considered attitude to the threat of climate change.

Walter Reid, Robert Watson and Harold Mooney defend the term 'ecosystem services' as an essential way of describing to policymakers the importance of the benefits that people receive from ecosystems.