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- Some are more worried than others
- The world may be getting warmer, but what will this mean to its inhabitants? The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change into the consequences of climate change reveals who will have the most to lose.
The Mediterranean in depth- Why is the Mediterranean so blue? Why are the summer currents different from the winter ones? Will run-off from fertilisers and detergents damage fish stocks - or could they improve them? An interdisciplinary project is looking for answers.
Clean and green- Europe is a leader in renewable energy. The results of the TERES II study into the range and impact of alternative energy resources in 30 countries are presented in a convenient CD-ROM format.
Modelling a changing world- The only way to get a handle on what is going to happen to the world is to choose the factors you think are important, work out how they interact, and then put them together with mathematics and see what happens. You have made a model, and what comes out of it is as fallible as what goes in. Yet as far as ecology is concerned, entirely different assumptions tend to give the same results.
- Working in a climate of uncertainty
- Science needs a new methodology, if it is to live up to the demands politicians are placing on it, says a new book on climate change. The paradigm of objectivity needs to be placed within its social context if decisions are to be soundly based.
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August 1998