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In their efforts to make climate information more useful for adaptation decisions, scientists will need to be clear about the limits of climate prediction.
Hopes are fading that a strong treaty will emerge from next month's negotiations in Copenhagen. Researchers who study cooperation, though, aren't surprised. Mason Inman reports.
At the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen this December, talk will turn to scientific, political and economic issues with a global reach and a long history — not easy to pick up from the daily news. We asked select experts on climate change what books we should be reading ahead of the big event.
Humanity must learn to live within a stable Holocene environment, but the boundary limit for land use depends on more than the amount of surface covered.
