The Green Room
The Green Room offers a weekly series of thought-provoking opinion pieces on environmental topics. Some of the most recent stories are displayed below:
Humanity needs to take 'giant leap'
Humanity needs a project with the vision and budget of the Apollo space programme if it is going to make the necessary giant leap towards sustainability.
Protecting wildlife in conflict zones
Conservationists find themselves on the front line of more than the battle to save species.
Could things go from bad to worse?
Current efforts to protect the world's biodiversity run the risk of doing more harm than good.
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GM food is 'part of the solution'
With the world's food security facing a "perfect storm", GM food crops must be part of the solution.
Time to go back to basics
"Good old-fashioned" farming will help deliver a sustainable green revolution in Africa.
Payback time for home generation
Effective subsidies are needed in order to convince people to generate electricity in their own homes.
Restating the IPCC's reason for being
The IPCC chairman says the organisation continues to play a vital role in the global climate policy debate.
Decision time for whale conservation
It is time for nations to end two decades of deadlock and reach a shared vision on whale conservation.
Hooking the fishing 'pirates'
It's time to close the net on fishing "pirates" who threaten to undermine vital marine ecosystems.
Whales: 'Resource' or 'right'?
Discoveries of intelligence in cetaceans raise new questions about how we relate to them.
Oil: Choices we need to make
The Gulf of Mexico oil leak raises deep questions over the environmental cost of our "addiction" to oil.
A new direction for climate policy
It is time for a radical reshaping of global climate policy as the current approach is doomed to failure.
Seeing REDD over forest peoples
Mechanisms for curbing emissions through forest conservation risk marginalising forests peoples.
Reviving the spirit of Rio
The second Earth Summit holds the promise to cure the world's environmental ills.
EU must increase climate ambition
A sharp fall in emissions makes the EU's current target almost worthless.
Counting the cost of alien invasions
Far too many nations have failed to grasp the scale of the threat from invasive species.
Road to Copenhagen
Richard Black's Earth Watch
Richard Black blogs on environmental issues in the run-up to the Copenhagen summit
Earth News
Reporting on life on Earth
Science & Nature
On the edge
Richard Leakey on human poverty and saving the gorilla
Save the...D'oh!
Environmentalists welcome the unlikeliest recruits
Sick planet
James Lovelock on Gaia's impending eco-breakdown
Feathered fiends
Wild birds make easy scapegoats for bird flu
Crowded planet
Why the Earth's population is too high for comfort
Image issue
Sustainable development is big but not boring
Kill for cure
Hunting can help keep struggling animals alive
Local heroes
Conservation needs to go back to its grass roots
Distance learning
Simple 'food miles' may be missing the big picture
