Crops: drying a slow death - Telegraph

The drought has come just as the nation has been putting the memories of the big Christmas freeze behind it, although – to add insult to injury – my hosts in Derbyshire experienced frost earlier this week.

Species-area relationships always overestimate extinction rates from habitat loss : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

Estimates of extinction rates based on this method are almost always much higher than those actually observed

Revkin.net - More on Climate, Mind & Behavior

The Symposium opened with Dr. Dan Siegel who discussedthe neurological basis of behavior, the mind, the brain and human relationships and how to use these concepts to affect pro-environmental behavior change.
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Matthew Lewis explained how stories can be used to influence behavior and offered strategic climate communications advice, and Rachel Gutter shared her story of building a green schools movement. During the final evening’s conversations, Dan Siegel asked Paul Hawken, David Orr and Bill McKibben to comment on the inner dimensions of dealing with climate impacts, raising the question of how to create a culture of hope when scientific projections are bleak. By the end of the three day Symposium the Institute was buzzing with big ideas, new partnerships, and a prevailing eagerness to translate the thinking into action.