Rio has been getting back to normal now that all the visitors attending the UN Summit on Sustainable Development have wandered home following the rather limp conclusion on 22nd June. As expected the final declaration agreed to by the delegates… Read More »Rio+20 Again: What did I say?
Biodiversity is literally the biotic richness present within species, among species and across ecosystems on this planet. Biodiversity is declining rapidly. When I wrote Chapter 7 of Our Dying Planet, on biodiversity loss and the Holocene Mass Extinction, I delved… Read More »Species DO Matter: New analyses confirm biodiversity and ecosystem function are linked
Rio + 20, EarthSummit 2012, or more formally, the Second UN Conference on Sustainable Development takes place in Rio do Janiero in one week’s time. I am not holding my breath. The journal, Nature, devoted its editorial in the June… Read More »Rio+20, a place where good things might happen, but probably won’t