Last year proved eventful for advances in environmental and climate science, even if the same can’t be said for advances in climate policymaking. Here’s a rundown of the articles that proved most popular with your colleagues.

Wind turbine blades: the bigger, the better?

'Climategate' scientists receive death threats

Calculating the real carbon footprint of vehicles

Satellite images of healthy sea ice prove to be thin "rotten" ice up close

The IPCC report: what the lead authors really think

Biofuels worse for climate change than fossil fuels

IPCC report map fails cartography exam

Ocean acidification likely to harm fish navigation

Recycling technology: mining the waste resource

"Natural causes" not responsible for global warming