Allmodelsarewrong: Mark Maslin and Patrick Austin at University College London have just had a comment published in Nature called “Climate models at their limit?”. This builds on the emerging evidence that the latest, greatest climate predictions, which will be summarised in the next assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5, 2013) are not going to tell us

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Economic Times: Kulvinder Gill, professor of breeding and genetics at the Washington State University in the US, describes himself as a dreamer and an optimist. One of his dreams is to make sure food production does not decline over the next few decades, when increasing temperatures act on the yields of major crops. Specifically, he

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FAO: The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), through Resolution 64/236 of 24 December 2009, decided to organize the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3 to 6 June 2012 (UNCSD, also referred to as Rio+20). The two main stated themes decided by the UNGA for UNCSD are: a green economy in the

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Scidev.net: Researchers from across the developing world are attending a series of meetings to push forward the science and policy issues they have identified for inclusion in next week’s Rio+20 summit. Science and technology communities from five regions (Africa, the Arab States, Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America) met during 2011, and some of their

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DFID: Two case studies from Panos London’s Relay Programme show that limited interaction between researchers and journalists are a barrier to increasing the amount and quality of reporting using research findings.  Limited chances to meet and build working relationships reinforced a lack of trust and understanding.  Panos further found that prior to the Relay intervention,

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GVEP: Determined to be the solution to the problem of poor electricity supply a community in Central Kenya opted to start its own mini hydro project. After some false starts, this venture is progressing thanks in part to GVEP’s support in overcoming obstacles and pitfalls. In recent years, steps have been made towards liberalisation of

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