Field work is what is missing in botany.
Botanists need to get out of their laboratories and back to field projects, argues Plant Talk. Jan Cerovsky, Conservation's Diplomat in a new Europe. The Czech botanist chairs the steering group of Planta Europa, the new pan-European network of botanists and plant conservers. Field botanist, ecologist, editor, government scientist, linguist and stalwart of international organizations, he represents the new European spirit that has replaced the tired polemic of the Cold War. Fred Pearce outlines the latest figures for world temperatures and argues that the figures do look bad.