The constant drip-feed of bad news on the environment has inured us to the litany of loss.

BBC: Stark warning over the state of nature

There are pilot-projects with fast-growing trees that can be pollarded for firewood, and drip-feed irrigation for saplings.

ECONOMIST: Missing trees reflect the country's woeful recent history

Even without new seed varieties or fancy drip-feed irrigation, investment should help farmers.

ECONOMIST: Buying farmland abroad

Realistically, the most GM can hope for is that it will have done enough by March to keep the drip-feed going until the second half of 2009, when things may start to improve.

ECONOMIST: America's car industry

Over the past three months, a small team led by Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) and manager Paul Hahn has orchestrated a drip-feed marketing campaign that has left almost everything about the album up to the imagination.

WSJ: Daft Punk's Stealth Start for a Summer Hit