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    • Anna Petherick
    Research Highlights
    • Anna Petherick
    Research Highlights
  • Feeding a growing population in a hotter world will require exploiting a far broader range of crop diversity than now — and that means valuing wild genes.

    • Luigi Guarino
    • David B. Lobell
    Commentary
  • Avoiding dangerous climate change is an increasingly formidable challenge. Diplomats meeting next month in Durban must propose a persuasive alternative if they are to end the Kyoto Protocol.

    Editorial
  • As scientists raise alarming questions about the true carbon cost of some biofuels, policymakers must decide how best to promote low-emission versions, reports Sonja van Renssen.

    • Sonja van Renssen
    Policy Watch
  • A new report warns of the environmental impact of Asia's rise. But the relationship between pollution and economic growth is not simple, argues Anna Petherick.

    • Anna Petherick
    Market Watch
  • With expertise in geography and human health, Marta Jankowska and David López-Carr worked with a team of specialists in climate science, statistics, demography and policy to study climate change impacts on child malnutrition in Mali.

    • Monica Contestabile
    Beyond Boundaries
  • Do films such as Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth really make any difference to how we think and feel about climate change?

    • Geoffrey Beattie
    Commentary