Editorial
Crop Breeding for High Production, Water Use Efficiency & Albedo: It's a good way to confront mankind's growing need for food and the water needed to produce it, while simultaneously hedging our bets on what many believe to be CO2-induced global warming.

Subject Index Summary
Biospheric Productivity (Global: The Recent Past): Since 1980 the Earth has weathered three of the warmest decades in the instrumental temperature record, a handful of intense and persistent El Niño events, large-scale deforestation, "unprecedented" forest fires, and the eruption of several volcanoes. Concurrently, the air's CO2 content increased by 16%, while human population grew by 55%. It was a bad time for the biosphere. Or was it?

Journal Reviews
Catastrophic Floods of Dartmoor, South West England: Are they few and far-between? ... or are they growing ever more frequent ... and ferocious?

Simulating the East Asian Summer Monsoon: How well are the latest versions of today's best climate models performing in this regard?

Rapid Evolution of Reproductive Traits in Response to Warming: One can learn a lot from a guppy.

A Quarter-Century of Carbon Sequestration in Global Grasslands: Has it been increasing, decreasing or staying about the same?

Semi-Arid Ecosystems: Their Impact on the Global Carbon Cycle: Is it negligible, modest or outrageously powerful?

Diffusion Boundary Layers Around Calcifying Marine Organisms: A recent study demonstrates how they may ameliorate the negative effects of ocean acidification.