2004 Overview

• Global:
  Box 1: Human appropriation of Net Primary Production
  Box 2: The rising profile of renewables
  Box 3: Methyl bromide heats up ozone talks
  Box 4: New regulations to keep invasive species out of ballast water
  Box 5: Protecting against the risks of Living Modified Organisms
  Box 6: Global community urges efforts to protect deep sea ecosystems
• Africa:
  Box 1: Wildfires in Africa
  Box 2: Chemicals management
  Box 3: New law tackles genetically modified organisms
• Asia and the Pacific:
  Box 1: Regional Centre on Pacific Waste opens in South Pacific
  Box 2: Critically endangered saiga antelope
  Box 3: New bird species and sightings
  Box 4: Philippines bans commercial logging in storms' wake
  Box 5: Gangotri Glacier recedes
• Europe:
  Box 1: Climate change and Russian agriculture
  Box 2: Taxing leaded petrol out of existence
  Box 3: Successful road pricing fights congestion in big cities
• Latin America and the Caribbean:
  Box 1: Relaunching the Treaty of Amazon Cooperation
  Box 2: Coasts, mangrove forests and coral reefs in the wider Caribbean
• North America:
  Box 1: Fine particulates - new evidence and new regulations
  Box 2: Canada led world growth in forest certification
  Box 3: Wolves improve ecological balance in Yellowstone
• West Asia:
  Box 1: MDGs in urban areas and integrated water resources management
  Box 2: Re-flooding of the Mesopotamian marshlands
  Box 3: Putting agrobiodiversity into practice
• Polar:
  Box 1: Stockholm Convention on POPs enters into force
  Box 2: First Antarctic Specially Managed Area approved
• Indian Ocean Tsunami
  Box 1: UNEP's role in the response to the disaster
  

Feature Focus: Gender, Poverty and Environment

• Gender Matters
  Box 1: Some definitions
  Box 2: The gender perspective in Millennium Development Goals
  Box 3: Women as participants in programme design and execution
  Box 4: Network of Women Ministers of the Environment
  Box 5: Women defend the trees
  Box 6: Women ensuring their own water supplies
  Box 7: Sanitation
  Box 8: Gender in the Kobe earthquake
  

Emerging Challenges - New Findings

• Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases: Links to Environmental Change
  Box 1: Some definitions
  Box 2: Gold and gem mining, roads, and malaria
  Box 3: Bushmeat, Ebola and HIV/AIDS
  Box 4: Reforestation, biodiversity loss, and Lyme disease
  Box 5: Irrigation, schistosomiasis and West Nile Virus
  Box 6: Climate and cholera