A new generation of environmental assessment and forecasting tools has begun to emerge, replacing the sensational Malthusian gloom-and-doom reports of the 1970s that were mostly proven wrong. Panelists at this event will examine several of these efforts, including the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the Pilot Environmental Performance Index, the State of...

The UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment inclusion of human resiliency and adaption suggests that it may represent a turning point from old-style Malthusian fatalism on the environment.

Know-nothingism and doomsaying about the poor state of the environment is more profitable, and it gets better headlines.

The State of the Nation's Ecosystems analyzes environmental trends, provides a check-up on environmental conditions and identifies problems in assessing environmental trends.

Climate change is heating up again in American politics, the result of an orchestrated campaign to push the issue to the forefront.