The paper compares existing river ecology concepts with current approaches to describe river biogeochemistry, and assesses the value of these concepts and approaches for understanding the impacts of interacting global change disturbances on river biogeochemistry.

UNESCO: NATURAL SCIENCES

The story begins with a research paper which compares English and Welsh hospitals during a period when the English were pushing waiting list targets but the Welsh did not, choosing to emphasise other priorities.

BBC: A magnifying glass on top of a fingerprint

Quite how much the upturn has disappointed - across the advanced economies - is brought out clearly in a new paper by HSBC, which looks at where the main economies are now and compares that with where forecasters expected them to be back in 2008.

BBC: Banking report: Counting the cost of the crisis