Climate science Archives

Rio Olympics: don’t break 1.5C record, say athletes

Campaign launches to promote clean energy and sustainable lifestyles, with stars backing #sport4climate

Record heat, drought and continued glacier retreat show global warming fingerprint in 2015 state of the climate report

Scientists have found a way to turn carbon dioxide into usable energy, which could help tackle climate change

Email exchanges between Australian government and Paris-based UNESCO indicate officials colluded in keeping lobbying over key climate report secret

Science underpinning the global treaty aiming to stop average temperatures rising more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels needs more research

These mesmerising climate visuals tell the story of how emissions have stoked global warming since 1850

Ethnic divides, more than economic inequality or poverty, raise the risk of violence erupting when droughts or heatwaves kick in

Average temperature in the first six months of 2016 was 1.3C says NASA as fears over climate change impacts continue to mount

Species loss has pushed ecosystems past a danger threshold across more than half of the terrestrial world

Scientific reports warn that people are already dying and economies being hit by climate change − and that the dangers are growing

Turbocharged weather events like Typhoon Nepartak, Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy are expected to become more common with climate change

Projected heatwaves, rising sea levels and intense rainfall linked to climate change mean vulnerable countries need to get their house in order

Wuhan province has suffered its heaviest downpours since 1998, exposing the inadequacy of flood defences

Hundreds of west Europeans were killed in the 2003 heat wave by human-induced climate change, scientists say in a ground-breaking report

The incoming government must prepare for floods and heatwaves even as EU negotiations dominate politics, say advisers

Drying bogs are increasingly flammable, researchers warn, fuelling blazes from Fort McMurray in Canada to southeast Asia

The geology of meteorites from Mars could help to predict the long term effects of carbon capture and storage

Animation shows how north polar sea ice has shrunk year on year since PIOMAS records began in 1979

World is almost certain to breach danger threshold for millions of vulnerable people, study finds

Corals are dying rapidly and sustained high sea temperatures will make it harder than ever to recover, say researchers