• Global
  • Box 1: A year of weather extremes
  • Box 2: Life on the edge
  • Box 3: A new approach to preventing extinctions
  • Box 4: Looking toward the International Year of Deserts and Desertification 2006
• Africa
  • Box 1: Land degradation in Ethiopia's highlands
  • Box 2: A new alliance to combat land degradation in Africa
  • Box 3: Lesotho highlands water project
  • Box 4: Great apes: global strategy and declaration
• Asia and the Pacific
  • Box 1: Avian Influenza
  • Box 2: Pakistan earthquake
  • Box 3: A new family of mammals
  • Box 4: Major river pollution incident in northeast China
• Europe
  • Box 1: Europe’s ecological footprint
  • Box 2: The EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive
  • Box 3: Ukraine’s roof-tile revolution
  • Box 4: Extreme weather events in Europe
  • Box 5: Oil discharges in European waters
  • Box 6: Does bio-fuel threaten high nature-value farmland and biodiversity?
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Box 1: Floods in Central America
  • Box 2: Five new bird species discovered
  • Box 3: Deforestation
  • Box 4: Sustainability in border zones
• North America
  • Box 1: States mandate energy efficiency and emissions reductions
  • Box 2: Hurricane season
  • Box 3: Youth-at-risk clean up the Anacostia River
• West Asia
  • Box 1: Dust and sand storms
  • Box 2: Urbanization of Damascus
  • Box 3: Green Award for Bahrain industrial landfill site
  • Box 4: Sustainable development plan for Bubiyan Island
  • Box 5: Champion of the Earth
• Polar
  • Box 1: Melting of Arctic sea ice accelerates
  • Box 2: New evidence questions stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
  • Box 3: “We watch the weather and notice changes”
  • Box 4: Some Arctic oil and gas issues
  • Box 5: Ozone depletion continues
  • Box 6: Addressing environmental emergencies

Feature Focus: Energy and Air Pollution

• Defining the Energy and Air Pollution Challenge
  • Box 1: The shifting burden of air pollution
  • Box 2: Urban air pollution in Asia
• Long-Range Transport of Air Pollution
  • Box 3: Conversion to natural gas in Santiago
  • Box 4: Preventing acid rain in Europe – a success story
  • Box 5: The Atmospheric Brown Cloud
  • Box 6: Pricing benefits of air pollution abatement

Emerging Challenges – New Findings

• Crop Production in a Changing Climate
  • Box 1: Climate change and pests
  • Box 2: Agricultural technology and policy options for climate change
  • Box 3: The potential of biotechnology
• Fish and Shellfish Farming in Marine Exosystems
  • Box 1: Two ways of reducing waste
  • Box 2: Artificial upwelling for enhancing biological productivity