A Monitor editorial this week focuses on the deadline for compliance with the Kyoto agreement, and some anxiety by European countries over its implementation.

In the meantime, emissions continue to rise, as noted in an annual report by the European Environment Agency. Additional data on the generation of man-made emissions in OECD countries, total and per capita, may be found at the following OECD report.

Today's article in the Monitor discusses resilient nature: how species adapt and even thrive amid humanity's development. NASA features a website with a series of interesting earth images , including city lights of population centers as seen from space. Another organization, GLOBIO, an initiative of the UN Environmental Program, has a series of maps showing various aspects of human impact. Of particular interest is its interactive map showing an atlas of biodiversity.

“CAUTION: THIS QUIZ MAY SURPRISE YOU, SHOCK YOU, OR MAKE YOU THINK”

Those who are perhaps a little too secure in their environmental stewardship would do well to take this admonition from Earth Day Network to heart. At the group’s Ecological Footprint Quiz site, those who dare can see just how environmentally friendly, or not, their daily activities are. Here's more on the quiz's methods and goals.

You’ve been warned.