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Flood Defences: Get Wise – Or Get Wet

They called it the nightmare before Christmas but – despite yesterday’s encore – it’s not over yet. Further heavy rains are due in the South-West to...

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Climate change will change our world fundamentally

The UN warns in her new climate report before a very rapid rise in sea level. It threatens heat waves, many glaciers could completely disappear, for regions such as Germany...

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"Dark Money" Funds Climate Change Denial Effort

A Drexel University study finds that a large slice of donations to organizations that deny global warming are funnelled through third-party pass-through organizations that ...

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2013 in review: Obama talks climate change ? but pushes fracking

Global warming stopped being political poison, but the fracking and coal export boom continued, says Suzanne Goldenberg. Read Read More

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Global warming proponents and sceptics agree on one point: study into myth of 'pause' merits more research

A study suggesting that the pause in global warming is not real has managed to unify climate scientists and their arch-sceptics over the need for further research to clarif...

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China Releases Blueprint for Adapting to Climate Change

China issued its first nation-wide blueprintfor adapting to climate change, as governments around the world shift their efforts from focusing solely on curbing global warmi...

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2?C rise will be a disaster say leading scientists

Governments have set the wrong target to limit climate change. The goal at present ? to limit global warming to a maximum of 2?C higher than the average for most of human h...

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Corporates cause two third of global warming emissions

The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated...

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Facing Reality: Climate Change

Delegates at the international climate talks in Warsaw, which end Friday, lamented Japan?s move as a blow to worldwide efforts to slow global warming. In the Philippines, w...

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UN Environment Programme states an increase in global green house gas emissions by 2020 (Emissions Gap report 2013)

The United Nations says it is “less and less likely” that global greenhouse gas emissions will be low enough by 2020 to stop the atmosphere warming beyond the i...

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