A global warming limit agreed by world leaders with great fanfare is feared to be coming close to being broken just eight months on.

Although deforestation continues unabated in tropical forests, a new study has revealed some unexpected good news: tree cover on agricultural land is increasing across the globe, capturing nearly 0

The NASA-funded study said carbon dioxide released was eight per cent less than what was reported by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which took samples of peat in Sumatra i

World's longest laboratory experiment with the single-celled calcifying alga Emiliania huxleyi reveals that evolutionary adaptation to acidification is restricted

For a number of years now, climate change skeptics have argued that there’s a key part of the Earth’s climate system that upends our expectations about global warming, and that is showing trends th

Scientists use a variety of approaches to estimate the Earth’s climate sensitivity – how much the planet will warm as a result of humans increasing greenhouse effect.

In a major new paper in the influential journal Science, a team of researchers report strikingly good news about a 30-year old environmental problem.

Britain’s decision to leave the European Union was not a vote against climate change, nor was it a vote against the innovation key to fighting climate change, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres t

How ambitious is the world?

UNITED NATIONS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Melting ice in Antarctica puts as many as 30 million people in Bangladesh at risk of losing their homes over the coming century, according to a new doc