Climate science
Back to the future: 2015 offered glimpse of climate to come, says WMO
NEWS: Last year was off the charts says World Meteorological Organization in annual report
Rougher Atlantic storms to pound Western Europe – study
NEWS: Britain, France and Portugal should prepare defences for stronger waves as global warming intensifies, say researchers
2016 on course to be hottest on record, says US climate agency
NEWS: Scientists say global warming is bordering on the ‘astronomical’ as temperatures break new ground driven by a rampant El Nino, says NOAA
Climate hopes raised as global energy emissions stall for second year
NEWS: Early figures show emissions from energy sector stayed flat in 2015 on renewables surge, says influential forecaster
Rising seas could trigger ‘Great Migration’ from US shores
NEWS: Flooded coastlines may affect 13m people by 2100 on a similar scale of African-American exodus from rural South in 20th century
Mediterranean could be in driest spell for 900 years
NEWS: Drought in east spanning Cyprus to Syria the worst in at least half a millennium and may be nearly twice as long, scientists say
Global warming: February temperature rise ‘unprecedented’
NEWS: Temperature surge in February comes within striking distance of goals agreed last year as experts warn of climate emergency
Antarctica geoengineering idea flawed say scientists
NEWS: Pumping sea water onto the continent to form ice to slow sea-level rise is flawed say scientists – and could make it worse
CO2 levels make largest annual leap in 56 years – NOAA
NEWS: The last time the Earth saw such a sustained increase was over 11 millennia ago, says US agency
US, Canada to reveal new climate change goals
NEWS: Canadian PM Trudeau says he has an understanding with Obama over important issues that impact both countries, with climate change a priority
US forests struggle as drought and climate change bite
NEWS: The speed at which the climate is changing is outstripping forests’ ability to adapt to drier, hotter conditions across vast swathes of the US and Canada
Why reframing climate policy is a waste of time
NEWS: Stressing the health, economic or social co-benefits of measures to cut global warming risk doesn’t increase public support, study finds
Is climate change boosting US tornado numbers?
NEWS: Scientists say it’s too early to know for sure whether global warming caused by burning fossil fuels is to blame for a growing tornado threat
Darkening Greenland ice sheet melts faster
NEWS: Soot and re-frozen ice makes snowpack less reflective, in feedback loop that could accelerate sea level rise
Climate change could make growing these crops in African regions impossible
NEWS: Farmers advised to swap beans, bananas and maize for hardier staples in face of hotter continent in new study
Hotter planet spells harder rains to come – study
NEWS: Planners told to boost flood defences especially in dry regions as global warming intensifies water cycle
Intense heatwaves could become ‘annual events’ by 2075
NEWS: Researchers warn that more areas of the world will swelter more often in potentially lethal heatwaves unless greenhouse gas emissions are drastically curtailed
Nanotechnology trial shows route to carbon negative cars
NEWS: Carbon dioxide can be used to make batteries for electric vehicles, US scientists have shown
Climate change slows health gains from eating better – study
NEWS: Cutting greenhouse gas emissions could save half a million lives in 2050, researchers find, by preventing food crop damage
Ocean acidification is slowing coral reef growth – study
NEWS: Experiments in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef show destructive impact of carbon dioxide dissolved in seawater