A study finds that some developing countries may face significant food security impacts by 2020 if their ambitious biofuels targets are met.

African participants at an international meeting emphasise the need for continent-wide action to generate easy-to-access environmental data.

An Eye on Earth Declaration and a set of Special Initiatives target next year’s major international conference on sustainable development.

Whether it’s finding an post-earthquake area on which to build or updating drainage maps, GeoSUR can help.

Potentially lucrative sea-bottom minerals are a factor in a Pacific Island state’s drive to become the "greenest, cleanest destination" in the world.

A "piece of paper people can walk away with" and "a very valuable and very important" declaration is approved for submission to Rio+20.

Information is crucial in dealing with natural calamities in Africa, but it must come from local people as well as from advanced technologies.

Africa lacks environmental data, a problem compounded by secrecy and an unwillingness to share, say civil society representatives.

Improving data collection is important but so is access, conference is told.

Agreement on the wording of a declaration by a conference in Abu Dhabi marks a step towards a global treaty on access to environmental information.

An international meeting is being used to drum up support for a legally binding convention on access to environmental information.