- Consumption - in Ivory Coast, civil war has been financed partly by cocoa, according to a new report that urges consumers and chocolate companies to help end the financing of conflict.
- Crime - wildlife crimes - such as illegal logging, ivory poaching and trading in rare animals - are now so rife they should be treated as serious transnational organised crime, says a prominent environmental activism group.
- Spirituality - do we just have to accept that different people at different stages of human development will embrace different versions of spirituality?
- Water - "the wrath of 2007"; are current droughts around the world part of a normal pattern or signs of a worrying long-term trend?
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