Bali has not been the only island that has just hosted a climate-change conference. The BBC World Service’s Digital Planet today runs a short feature and podcast about Nature Publishing Group’s Second Nature, an archipelago of islands in Second Life, in which climate scientists – or their representational avatars – have been hosting talks and discussions. Timo Hannay, publishing director at Nature Publishing Group, describes how we went about achieving this series of virtual talks in a podcast which is available for one week only (until Tuesday 25 December) via the Digital Planet site.

Full reports of the Second Nature conference are at Joanna Scott’s Nature Network blog. A brief description of the virtual conference’s aims is here, with full presentations, Q/As and slides of the first two talks, by Tara LaForce of Imperial College London and Euan Nisbet of Royal Holloway College London.

You can follow our coverage of the real UN climate change conference at Climate Feedback blog — just keep scrolling, there are many excellent posts from Olive Heffernan, Editor of Nature Reports Climate Change, who was in Bali for the duration.