The Millennium Assessment.

The article discusses the results from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the result of a collaboration of scientists to describe the state of the environment. The report does not provide advice on how to improve the Earth's environment, which, the author claims, is the reason why the media did not offer much press coverage of its release. Components of the assessment include human health, desertification and land degradation, global warming and climate change, population, and wetlands and water. Walter V. Reid was the director of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. INSETS: Four scenarios;Earth a star?.