Drug-pollution law all washed up
Europe is set to quash a precedent-setting initiative designed to tackle a disturbing side effect of common drugs — their impact on aquatic life. Nature has learned that landmark regulations intended to
Natasha Gilbert
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The seeds of an economy
<p>Biofuels could help poor nations modernize, but scaling up aid supported projects to commercial operations is far from easy.</p> <p>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v474/n7352_supp/full/474S018a.html</p>
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Biodiversity hope faces extinction
The future of the world's biodiversity hangs in the balance as countries convene for crucial negotiations in Nagoya, Japan. The 193 signatory nations to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) pledged
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Can conservation cut poverty?
World leaders will gather at the United Nations in New York next week to discuss progress on two goals said to be complementary: saving species and lifting people out of poverty.
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Mountain mining damages streams
Study shows that stripping mountains for coal has a much greater impact than urban growth.
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Food: Inside the hothouses of industry
Feeding the world is going to require the scientific and financial muscle of agricultural biotechnology companies. Natasha Gilbert asks whether they're up to the task.
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Efforts to sustain biodiversity fall short
With nations admitting that they will fail to achieve their goal of significantly cutting biodiversity loss by 2010, a flurry of work is under way to develop new, more robust targets and ways of monitoring progress. These must be ready by next October, when the 193 parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meet in Nagoya, Japan.
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The disappearing nutrient
Phosphate-based fertilizers have helped spur agricultural gains in the past century, but the world may soon run out of them. Natasha Gilbert investigates the potential phosphate crisis.
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Nanoparticle safety in doubt
Nanoparticles have been blamed for two deaths at a Chinese factory, in a report that claims to be the first to document human disease caused by the particles.
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Europe prepares for drugs from GM plants
Commercial development of plant-derived pharmaceuticals has moved forward today with the publication of the first European guidelines for growing these genetically modified (GM) plants.
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Legally binding green targets for UK
The United Kingdom is on track to become the first country to have legally binding targets for cutting greenhouse gases.