SciDev.Net speaks to UN Environment Programme executive director Achim Steiner at the Eye on Earth Summit (12-15 December) about next year's Rio+20.

A network of mountaintop research stations is being built across Asia to study how large bodies of ice respond to increasing temperatures.

Laura Hood summarises the latest data on the world's biodiversity, with facts and figures on its value and efforts to conserve it.

Climate change will affect the water security of developing countries. Lucinda Mileham explores their priorities as they struggle to cope.

Priya Shetty explains the links between climate change and insect-borne disease, and outlines priorities for developing country policymakers.

Climate change is a reality in developing regions, who say the international community must not neglect better adaptation strategies.

Hannah Chalmers gives the low-down on how reducing emissions from deforestation can play a central role in tackling climate change.

Bay of Bengal cyclones are often hugely destructive. India hopes to cut deaths in the region through improved storm prediction and research.

The Tibetan plateau is feeling the effects of climate change, with glacial retreat and permafrost degradation among the effects.

T.V. Padma looks at how and why greenhouse gas emissions from India are on the rise.

Quirin Schiermeier and Bryon MacWilliams report on why Russian scientists are urging their country not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.