Richard Black
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- New beginnings - 12:50 UK time, Thursday, 12 May 2011
- Megafires - a vicious climate circle? - 16:50 UK time, Tuesday, 10 May 2011
- Generation game warms legal climate - 16:56 UK time, Friday, 6 May 2011
- Money in trees: The poor end of forest protection - 17:07 UK time, Wednesday, 4 May 2011
- Personal tales: a climate-changer? - 00:01 UK time, Sunday, 1 May 2011
- Climate laws don't wait for UN - 22:47 UK time, Tuesday, 26 April 2011
- Giant tortoise brings slow salvation - 17:00 UK time, Thursday, 21 April 2011
- Re-homing nature: A step too far? - 14:27 UK time, Monday, 18 April 2011
- Exploring the 'oceans crisis' - 14:50 UK time, Thursday, 14 April 2011
- Science and politics - a tale of two meetings - 07:55 UK time, Tuesday, 12 April 2011
- Reflections on a fortnight in Fukushima - 16:15 UK time, Thursday, 24 March 2011
- Bees: a sting in the tale - 14:13 UK time, Thursday, 10 March 2011
- Green tuna goes FAD-free - 19:52 UK time, Wednesday, 9 March 2011
- China and EU share climate vision - 14:57 UK time, Monday, 7 March 2011
- Refining the sixth great extinction - 19:46 UK time, Wednesday, 2 March 2011
- Discard bathwater, not baby - 15:20 UK time, Tuesday, 1 March 2011
- US climate cuts threaten isolation - 11:35 UK time, Thursday, 24 February 2011
- War and peace: Making sense of climate conflict - 18:49 UK time, Friday, 18 February 2011
- Whaling: Beginning of the end? - 12:36 UK time, Wednesday, 16 February 2011
- Palm oil deal points to corporate greening - 16:31 UK time, Wednesday, 9 February 2011
- Climate change: Contrary motion? - 13:56 UK time, Tuesday, 8 February 2011
- Oysters clear seas for local remedies - 11:43 UK time, Thursday, 3 February 2011
- UN sticks with climate agenda - but what prospects? - 15:15 UK time, Monday, 31 January 2011
- Arctic canary looking sicker than ever - 16:00 UK time, Friday, 28 January 2011
- Forests: REDD or dead? - 14:43 UK time, Monday, 24 January 2011
- H for 'human': The missing climate link? - 15:38 UK time, Friday, 21 January 2011
- Summit misses the 'C-word' - 13:53 UK time, Wednesday, 19 January 2011
- Real world of climate: How scary? - 17:04 UK time, Friday, 14 January 2011
- Conservation and Schrodinger's cat - 08:31 UK time, Thursday, 13 January 2011
- Ice-cold reality of warming projections - 15:50 UK time, Monday, 10 January 2011
- A big bite for conservation - 16:00 UK time, Friday, 31 December 2010
- Cancun splits opinion, but may mark way forward - 14:40 UK time, Thursday, 23 December 2010
- Cancun: The chihuahua that roared - 11:29 UK time, Saturday, 11 December 2010
- Time to get down to [business] at Cancun - 19:27 UK time, Thursday, 9 December 2010
- Unlikely marriage powers ahead - 21:18 UK time, Wednesday, 8 December 2010
- 'Terrific ten' given days to save the world - 17:55 UK time, Tuesday, 7 December 2010
- Hot and cold oil in Cancun climate - 18:55 UK time, Friday, 3 December 2010
- A healthy argument for biodiversity - 18:42 UK time, Wednesday, 1 December 2010
- Four degrees of hurt - 14:05 UK time, Monday, 29 November 2010
- Turning animal magic into money - 17:05 UK time, Wednesday, 24 November 2010
- China hints at new climate future - 14:34 UK time, Monday, 22 November 2010
- All eyes on France, as tuna wars loom - 17:34 UK time, Wednesday, 17 November 2010
- Copenhagen or Babel? A climate conundrum - 11:32 UK time, Tuesday, 16 November 2010
- Nature protection - the new road starts here - 20:34 UK time, Friday, 29 October 2010
- Banking on innovation for green shoots - 09:01 UK time, Friday, 29 October 2010
- Raiders of the lost bark - 10:55 UK time, Wednesday, 27 October 2010
- Obstacles to nature protection emerge as stakes rise - 10:27 UK time, Monday, 25 October 2010
- Bushmeat - ending the monkey business - 06:45 UK time, Saturday, 23 October 2010
- Green dollars to save the planet? - 04:38 UK time, Thursday, 21 October 2010
- Marine protection: The legal route - 14:59 UK time, Tuesday, 19 October 2010
- Solving nature loss: Child's play? - 12:16 UK time, Monday, 18 October 2010
- Folding the hopes of thousands - 16:58 UK time, Sunday, 17 October 2010
- Climate ship trims sails but keeps captain - 09:30 UK time, Friday, 15 October 2010
- Climate body seeks new wardrobe - 10:29 UK time, Wednesday, 13 October 2010
- Tianjin talks and a 'global work party' - 17:54 UK time, Friday, 8 October 2010
- Bluefin numbers shift in murky waters - 14:49 UK time, Thursday, 7 October 2010
- Livestock: Lengthening the shadow? - 17:20 UK time, Tuesday, 5 October 2010
- Campaigning explodes as climate process risks disintegration - 15:55 UK time, Monday, 4 October 2010
- The Great Bear and the big snap - 08:37 UK time, Wednesday, 29 September 2010
- 'Warmist' attack smacks of 'sceptical' intolerance - 16:42 UK time, Wednesday, 22 September 2010
- Condom hole in the Papal vision? - 18:05 UK time, Friday, 17 September 2010
- Nuclear waste goes the hole way - 17:52 UK time, Monday, 13 September 2010
- Mea culpa and au revoir - 17:40 UK time, Friday, 13 August 2010
- Delivering biochar's triple win - 16:05 UK time, Tuesday, 10 August 2010
- Noaa: The right answer to the wrong question? - 21:19 UK time, Wednesday, 4 August 2010
- An equal partnership with the land? - 17:14 UK time, Friday, 30 July 2010
- Climate campaigns down the pan - 17:01 UK time, Thursday, 29 July 2010
- Common climate in Canberra and Washington - 17:57 UK time, Monday, 26 July 2010
- UN climate talks in the mire? - 17:22 UK time, Friday, 23 July 2010
- Scientist leaves behind a climate of abuse - 15:43 UK time, Tuesday, 20 July 2010
- A violent snapshot of frog destruction - 20:00 UK time, Monday, 19 July 2010
- A week spent joining the dots - 17:07 UK time, Friday, 16 July 2010
- EU climate chief asks for leadership - 08:18 UK time, Thursday, 15 July 2010
- Food for thought on 'Fish Debt Day' - 12:02 UK time, Friday, 9 July 2010
- Climate data: what's hidden? - 19:21 UK time, Wednesday, 7 July 2010
- Dutch courage for climate mainstream - 18:17 UK time, Monday, 5 July 2010
- Petrolheads steer for green track - 16:40 UK time, Wednesday, 30 June 2010
- Whaling commission: What's missing? - 16:31 UK time, Monday, 28 June 2010
- Food for thought from Japan's accused - 08:27 UK time, Thursday, 24 June 2010
- Whale deal falls: but who wins? - 19:16 UK time, Wednesday, 23 June 2010
- Whaling: Interested parties - 16:13 UK time, Tuesday, 22 June 2010
- Celebrities draw blood on whaling - 15:10 UK time, Friday, 18 June 2010
- Oil spill muddies green political waters - 15:41 UK time, Wednesday, 16 June 2010
- Valuing nature, doing what with the numbers? - 15:58 UK time, Monday, 14 June 2010
- Climate talks eye level playing field - 12:15 UK time, Friday, 11 June 2010
- Bonn's obscured climate vision - 17:52 UK time, Thursday, 10 June 2010
- Snakes, seascapes, and the value of nature - 17:58 UK time, Wednesday, 9 June 2010
- Bridging the energy gulf - 18:04 UK time, Monday, 7 June 2010
- Profiting from nature's portfolio - 08:29 UK time, Friday, 4 June 2010
- Sustainability: Choices, choices, choices - 14:50 UK time, Wednesday, 2 June 2010
- Climate funds lack clarity - 10:55 UK time, Monday, 31 May 2010
- Europe debates climate 'ambition' - 14:18 UK time, Wednesday, 26 May 2010
- Wildlife - a good bet? - 17:19 UK time, Monday, 24 May 2010
- 'Playing God' with the climate? - 15:34 UK time, Friday, 21 May 2010
- IPCC review: friend or foe? - 19:44 UK time, Friday, 14 May 2010
- Much-drilled bill signals climate endgame - 22:56 UK time, Wednesday, 12 May 2010
- Will and equity - does climate alternative offer enough? - 15:32 UK time, Tuesday, 11 May 2010
- A financial trick in the familiar biodiversity tale - 15:08 UK time, Monday, 10 May 2010
- Deep reflections on the ozone story - 18:54 UK time, Wednesday, 5 May 2010
- The bare facts of biodiversity - 19:00 UK time, Thursday, 29 April 2010
- Climate party risks losing its guests - 16:22 UK time, Tuesday, 27 April 2010
- Oil stirs troubled waters - 17:26 UK time, Monday, 26 April 2010
- Ozone's joined-up climate - 14:14 UK time, Wednesday, 21 April 2010
- Comeback for climate cautions and caveats - 18:43 UK time, Thursday, 15 April 2010
- US driving climate process - but where? - 15:36 UK time, Monday, 12 April 2010
- Earth spirits' twin visions on climate - 09:22 UK time, Sunday, 11 April 2010
- Climate: How we got here - 17:50 UK time, Friday, 9 April 2010
- Bonn voyage for Copenhagen bus - 09:00 UK time, Thursday, 8 April 2010
- MPs' message of climate trust - 13:29 UK time, Wednesday, 31 March 2010
- Whaling words: Into the new - 10:32 UK time, Monday, 29 March 2010
- CITES: Murky waters for marine conservation - 17:33 UK time, Thursday, 25 March 2010
- Does healthcare win leave climate in better shape? - 12:42 UK time, Tuesday, 23 March 2010
- Tuna defeat's hypocritical roots - 17:24 UK time, Thursday, 18 March 2010
- Climate ads far from divine - 15:08 UK time, Wednesday, 17 March 2010
- Can rhinos cure cancer? - 19:18 UK time, Monday, 15 March 2010
- Climate review seeks detachment - 23:41 UK time, Wednesday, 10 March 2010
- EU - bloc vote or blocked vote? - 17:48 UK time, Tuesday, 9 March 2010
- Troubled history tinges marine plan - 10:42 UK time, Tuesday, 2 March 2010
- Tough love in a troubled climate - 14:05 UK time, Friday, 26 February 2010
- A stark snapshot of nature loss - 10:50 UK time, Wednesday, 24 February 2010
- Whaling: A draft of cold comfort? - 17:51 UK time, Monday, 22 February 2010
- Unknowns behind climate chief's resignation - 08:31 UK time, Friday, 19 February 2010
- Climate panel: Time for a refit? - 18:01 UK time, Wednesday, 10 February 2010
- Rising scepticism - a chill wind? - 17:52 UK time, Friday, 5 February 2010
- Distorted view through the climate gates - 17:29 UK time, Tuesday, 2 February 2010
- Copenhagen - striking accord? - 12:16 UK time, Monday, 1 February 2010
- Crunch time for the cosy cousin? - 09:02 UK time, Thursday, 28 January 2010
- Reflections on a hugely changed climate - 09:33 UK time, Friday, 22 January 2010
- The attack of the killer everything - 10:25 UK time, Wednesday, 20 January 2010
- Back to school on biodiversity - 12:40 UK time, Thursday, 14 January 2010
- Conservation contemplates the pre-emptive strike - 19:00 UK time, Thursday, 7 January 2010
- Arctic roots of 'upside-down' weather - 14:01 UK time, Tuesday, 5 January 2010
- 2010: Intruders on a biodiverse year? - 10:59 UK time, Thursday, 31 December 2009
- Best wishes from a white land - 10:17 UK time, Thursday, 24 December 2009
- COP15: (No) Hopenhagen? - 15:55 UK time, Saturday, 19 December 2009
- COP15: Deal or no deal? - 23:42 UK time, Friday, 18 December 2009
- COP15: First draft of Copenhagen's political declaration - 16:00 UK time, Friday, 18 December 2009
- COP15: Saving the planet or saving face? - 15:46 UK time, Friday, 18 December 2009
- COP15: 'Nothing new' in Obama's speech - 12:41 UK time, Friday, 18 December 2009
- COP15: Tumbling towards a deal - 20:44 UK time, Thursday, 17 December 2009
- COP15: Breaking a deal - 11:56 UK time, Thursday, 17 December 2009
- COP15: Titanic nears the harbour - 13:51 UK time, Wednesday, 16 December 2009
- COP15: Climate 'scepticism' and questions about sex - 14:05 UK time, Tuesday, 15 December 2009
- COP15: Lockouts and walk-outs - 20:46 UK time, Monday, 14 December 2009
- COP15: Still squabbling over form - 10:02 UK time, Monday, 14 December 2009
- COP15 Copenhagen climate summit: Day 5 - 19:12 UK time, Friday, 11 December 2009
- COP15 Copenhagen climate summit: Day 4 - 14:12 UK time, Thursday, 10 December 2009
- COP15 Copenhagen climate summit: Day 3 - 15:29 UK time, Wednesday, 9 December 2009
- COP15 Copenhagen climate summit: Day 2 - 14:35 UK time, Tuesday, 8 December 2009
- COP15 Copenhagen climate summit: Day 1 - 14:39 UK time, Monday, 7 December 2009
- Climate visions: a widening divide? - 17:15 UK time, Sunday, 6 December 2009
- Copenhagen Countdown: 2 days - 00:12 UK time, Saturday, 5 December 2009
- Copenhagen Countdown: 10 days - 23:10 UK time, Friday, 27 November 2009
- China completes the climate circle - 11:29 UK time, Thursday, 26 November 2009
- Copenhagen Countdown: 17 days - 18:16 UK time, Friday, 20 November 2009
- Climate: A defining issue - 15:22 UK time, Tuesday, 17 November 2009
- Copenhagen Countdown: 24 days - 17:33 UK time, Friday, 13 November 2009
- Copenhagen Countdown: 31 Days - 14:54 UK time, Saturday, 7 November 2009
- All's fair in the climate blame game - 11:09 UK time, Friday, 6 November 2009
- Climate talks: To the wire and beyond - 17:18 UK time, Wednesday, 4 November 2009
- Copenhagen countdown: 38 days - 20:56 UK time, Friday, 30 October 2009
- Magnetic attraction of climate 'scepticism' - 15:36 UK time, Friday, 30 October 2009
- A forest of issues - 11:13 UK time, Tuesday, 27 October 2009
- Copenhagen Countdown: 45 days - 17:20 UK time, Friday, 23 October 2009
- A kink in the lizard's tale - 08:10 UK time, Thursday, 22 October 2009
- Biases, U-turns, and the BBC's climate coverage - 16:00 UK time, Tuesday, 13 October 2009
- Climate doctors say 'feel the pain'... - 16:01 UK time, Monday, 12 October 2009
- Kingsnorth - coal gone west? - 15:57 UK time, Thursday, 8 October 2009
- Limiting growth - of people and fish - 15:25 UK time, Tuesday, 6 October 2009
- Hu's talking: Who's listening? - 18:11 UK time, Tuesday, 22 September 2009
- Fish report hits bottom note - 11:14 UK time, Friday, 18 September 2009
- Sober exit from the ozone party - 14:55 UK time, Wednesday, 16 September 2009
- Leaders in step on climate - 17:02 UK time, Monday, 14 September 2009
- Can climate spending save money? - 17:19 UK time, Thursday, 10 September 2009
- Yukio Hatoyama's golden carrot - 12:17 UK time, Monday, 7 September 2009
- Can Japan change the climate? - 12:26 UK time, Friday, 4 September 2009
- Plan B for Planet Earth - 17:05 UK time, Tuesday, 1 September 2009
- Africa re(de)fines the climate dialogue - 14:31 UK time, Monday, 24 August 2009
- Hopping mad about money - 10:05 UK time, Friday, 21 August 2009
- India's unsustainable lesson - 14:30 UK time, Thursday, 13 August 2009
- Modesty stalks climate process - 17:05 UK time, Tuesday, 11 August 2009
- Wanted: Green spooks - 13:54 UK time, Thursday, 30 July 2009
- Tuna: Fin words, suspicious tail - 12:41 UK time, Tuesday, 21 July 2009
- Desert dreams of the solar age - 16:21 UK time, Monday, 13 July 2009
- G8 climate pact lights up divisions - 12:17 UK time, Thursday, 9 July 2009
- Does climate cloud the bigger picture? - 17:16 UK time, Friday, 3 July 2009
- Raw emotion of dolphin kills - 13:56 UK time, Friday, 26 June 2009
- Playing the politics of whaling - 14:50 UK time, Wednesday, 24 June 2009
- 'Sound science' on the whaling grounds - 16:15 UK time, Monday, 22 June 2009
- Climate 'meltdown', yet fusion lags - 12:23 UK time, Friday, 19 June 2009
- Conservation groups feel the strain - 15:17 UK time, Monday, 15 June 2009
- Japan cools the climate waters - 16:14 UK time, Wednesday, 10 June 2009
- Re-telling the Soviet harpoon race - 14:12 UK time, Tuesday, 9 June 2009
- Politics-as-usual strains sustainable future - 10:47 UK time, Tuesday, 19 May 2009
- Losing sustainability in the urban canyons - 09:10 UK time, Tuesday, 12 May 2009
- Carbon caps - jam in the works? - 12:54 UK time, Thursday, 30 April 2009
- Europe's invaders push the green button - 12:25 UK time, Tuesday, 28 April 2009
- EU fisheries paper catches the drift - 15:40 UK time, Tuesday, 21 April 2009
- Hoon's electric vision: How green? - 13:42 UK time, Thursday, 16 April 2009
- Human rights make whale meat hard to swallow - 15:48 UK time, Thursday, 9 April 2009
- Dolphins raise sound questions - 14:10 UK time, Wednesday, 8 April 2009
- G20, Bonn and the climate of opinion - 13:14 UK time, Thursday, 2 April 2009
- Carbon: How much is enough? - 18:49 UK time, Thursday, 26 March 2009
- Turning on to Nano-man - 14:55 UK time, Tuesday, 24 March 2009
- A happy ending for Madagascar? - 08:29 UK time, Thursday, 19 March 2009
- A climate tidy - 08:39 UK time, Wednesday, 18 March 2009
- Fast words on warming; snail's pace on whales - 17:20 UK time, Friday, 13 March 2009
- Fish feel man's deep impact - 09:50 UK time, Thursday, 12 March 2009
- A whale of a week for climate - 15:12 UK time, Monday, 9 March 2009
- Fish farming and the green gap - 14:45 UK time, Tuesday, 3 March 2009
- Slow road to green reform - 10:20 UK time, Thursday, 26 February 2009
- High-quality climate - 15:10 UK time, Monday, 23 February 2009
- A questioning climate - 12:53 UK time, Friday, 20 February 2009
- Whales swim backwards - 09:10 UK time, Friday, 13 February 2009
- Fin words, bright waters - 08:48 UK time, Friday, 6 February 2009
- Dry Amazon, dry world? - 14:13 UK time, Tuesday, 3 February 2009
- Clearing the air - 14:10 UK time, Thursday, 29 January 2009
- The whale papers - 10:45 UK time, Tuesday, 27 January 2009
- Diverse roots of human disease - 17:17 UK time, Friday, 23 January 2009
- A green inauguration? - 14:20 UK time, Wednesday, 21 January 2009
- On fish, renewables and malaria - 08:40 UK time, Tuesday, 20 January 2009
- Our love, their loss - 09:30 UK time, Friday, 16 January 2009
- Icon prepares for take-off - 16:00 UK time, Thursday, 15 January 2009
- The incredible shrinking fish - 14:32 UK time, Tuesday, 13 January 2009
- Ice-cool analysis - 10:17 UK time, Tuesday, 13 January 2009
- "Predict and survive" - or not - 18:52 UK time, Thursday, 8 January 2009
- Blues for Bush - 10:51 UK time, Monday, 5 January 2009
- Five to watch in 2009 - 11:30 UK time, Friday, 2 January 2009
- Endnotes on the environment year - 10:10 UK time, Wednesday, 24 December 2008
- Obama's 'green dream' - 12:16 UK time, Monday, 22 December 2008
- Do green targets miss the point? - 10:19 UK time, Thursday, 18 December 2008
- Relish the wild Mekong while you can - 11:30 UK time, Tuesday, 16 December 2008
- EU climate deal - can it, or can't it? - 15:03 UK time, Friday, 12 December 2008
- A bad time for climate talks - 16:10 UK time, Thursday, 11 December 2008
- The nuts and bolts of climate curbs - 19:17 UK time, Wednesday, 10 December 2008
- People the losers from tree politics - 17:36 UK time, Tuesday, 9 December 2008
- A distant climate - 14:11 UK time, Monday, 8 December 2008
- Queen puts toe in happy waters - 12:15 UK time, Thursday, 4 December 2008
- Rio revisited? - 15:45 UK time, Tuesday, 2 December 2008
- Constraining the low-carbon future - 16:00 UK time, Monday, 1 December 2008
- UK: climate pioneer? - 14:12 UK time, Thursday, 27 November 2008
- Whales point to home rule - 14:40 UK time, Wednesday, 26 November 2008
- Toppled on tuna - 16:05 UK time, Tuesday, 25 November 2008
- Happy tail? - 15:54 UK time, Thursday, 20 November 2008
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I'm Richard Black, environment correspondent for the BBC News website. This is my take on what's happening to our shared environment as the human population grows and our use of nature's resources increases. 




