Climate science
Climate change in 17 tweets
Leading UK climate scientist illustrates a year of temperature rises, ice melt, record-breaking months and long-term trends in series of tweets
Iconic Kruger game park faces bleak climate future
Recent drought gives a taste of things to come for Kruger National Park, South Africa, as global warming outpaces species’ ability to adapt
Methane surge has climate scientists worried
Farming is in the frame as methane levels in the air grow at the highest rate in 20 years, jeopardising international climate targets
Climate scientists urged to fight back against ‘bullshit’
It might be time-consuming, but researchers need to defend the truth against a tide of misinformation, says commentary in journal Nature
Africa gears up for first-of-a-kind climate impact study
A scientific pilot in Kenya and Ethiopia seeks to identify the link between extreme weather events and global warming
UN to extend freeze on climate change geoengineering
Draft documents suggest countries will agree to further ban on large-scale climate techno-fixes, warning risks of damage to biodiversity outweigh potential benefits
There’s a secret UN climate summit taking place in Mexico
UN biodiversity chief tells Climate Home protecting and restoring ecosystems is the best way to protect the world from dangerous levels of global warming
Fire bombs: why is the Mediterranean burning?
Huge fires, once rare in southern Europe, have ripped through communities from Greece to Portugal. The third and final part of our series investigates why
Fire bombs: British Columbia prepares for infernos
The second part of our series on vulnerable communities finds BC taking radical action in the face of a pile up of fire threats. Can it move fast enough?
Fire bombs: Hobart lies in the path of climate disaster
Around the world, communities are living obliviously close to climate-driven fire disaster. In the first in a series of reports, Karl Mathiesen visits Hobart, Tasmania
Climate change is testing southern Africa water agreements
Stronger and fairer water agreements will be needed to prevent conflicts in southern Africa as the climate changes
Worst-recorded coral bleaching event to continue into 2017
World’s reefs in “uncharted territory”, say scientists, as bleaching set to hit reefs for an unprecedented third year in a row
Fish farms offer test ground for acidifying oceans – study
While rising CO2 levels have been shown to harm wild fish, shellfish and corals at sea, farmed fish can thrive in similar conditions
Melting Arctic: ‘It’s a very different Svalbard’
Wildly abnormal weather threatens Arctic bird species and the safety of Longyearbyen town, says polar scientist
Global greening slows rise of CO2, but not fast enough
The greenhouse effect has prompted plants to consume more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere − but not enough to prevent global warming
UN plans early warning network as climate risks soar
While governments continue to negotiate on climate change, meteorological scientists warn that the global warming situation is rapidly deteriorating
Paris climate target slips away as Donald Trump rises
Faint hopes for a 1.5C global warming limit to rescue low-lying island states from rising seas have been shattered by the US election result, say scientists
South Africa authorises coal splurge during UN climate summit
Government accused of ignoring increasingly severe water crisis as it gives green light to more coal plants in bid to tackle electricity shortages
US, EU offer to help African countries deliver climate plans
New international partnership aims to provide the technical knowledge needed to couple climate action and growth in developing countries
Adaptation finance: climate change’s forgotten child
Top advisor to poor countries says he’s changing advice and telling them to give up reliance on the promises of adaptation funding from developed countries