The modest achievements of last week's climate talks in Mexico must not create a false sense of complacency.

The climate change debate offers a way to integrate forest management into development policy, but strategies must be informed by good science.

The fight against biopiracy must embrace both legitimate science and social justice if biodiversity itself is not to suffer.

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.