Ecosystem services: a primer

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) provides a nice summary of the idea of ecosystem services at their website: Ecosystem Services: A Primer
Take a look at the article and then at the end you can follow up some of the links. For example there is an interesting interview with Gretchen Daly, one of the authors of an article that attempted to put a dollar value on ecosystem services ($33 trillion if you are curious).

This time last year: Shipbreaking. Not to be confused with Shipbuilding, the Elvis Costello song, that is about the Falklands war, although no-one here seems to know that.