Despite the crocs, it's a popular camping and fishing spot for those with a four-wheel-drive and the tenacity to get there.

But Bathurst Bay has a dark, almost forgotten past.

A natural cooling of the Pacific Ocean has contributed to slow global warming in the past decade but the pause is unlikely to last much longer, US scientists said on Thursday.

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The World Bank is working with other development finance institutions to raise some $500 million (320 million pounds) to modernise weather and flood forecasti

Fourteen of the 15 hottest years on record have occurred since 2000, according to the UN World Meteorological Organisation, as rising carbon emissions continue to trap heat and drive climate change

That's at least according to a study recently published in the journal Icarus, which details how researchers assessed images of hundreds of gully-like features found on the walls of impact craters

The world's oceans are heating at the rate of two trillion 100-watt light bulbs burning continuously, providing a clear signal of global warming, according to new study assessing data from a global

Since 1990, scientists have used complex models to predict how climate change and manmade greenhouse emissions will affect the world.

Australia experienced its third warmest year on record in 2014 with six major heat waves scorching the country, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

World leaders must commit themselves to holding current rises in global temperatures to 2C.

A collection of 160 of the world's top environmentalists have taken a full page advert in the New York Times to call on philanthropists and charities to use their funds to tackle global warming ahe