(9 August)  How to report a scientific consensus – impartially.  Read my comments on last month’s report into the accuracy and impartiality of the BBC’s coverage of science.

(8 August)  The participants of  the Leipzig workshop on the role of nested networks in the design of the new Intergovernmenal Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) have correspondence in the journal Science this week.  We suggest the IPCC is not a suitable model for IPBES to follow.