Climate science Archives

Cocaine wars to climate crisis: can fortified crops save Colombia?

NEWS: The biggest threat to Colombian farmers used to be drug-related violence. Now it’s climate change – but biofortified crops offer hope

NEWS: Heavy pollution and climate change are threatening long term health and productivity of high seas

NEWS: Researchers say around 350 billion tonnes of water from glaciers linked to rises of up to 8 centimetres

NEWS: Researchers say US southwest is expected to become steadily more arid as planetary temperatures soar

NEWS: Carbon dioxide emissions in 2013 were largest on record since 1984, says World Meteorological Organization

COMMENT: US scientist John Bruno explains why he’s joining colleagues to stress agreement on causes of climate change

NEWS: Leading green groups set out what they say are “realistic goals” for international climate talks

NEWS: Governments need to slash carbon intensity five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change, say analysts

NEWS: Alliance deputy assistant secretary general says warming climate is creating new challenges

NEWS: Britain must cater for wildlife moving northwards because of climate change, says veteran naturalist and broadcaster

ANALYSIS: With Ukraine and Afghanistan dominating this year’s Summit agenda, will NATO ever take climate change seriously?

NEWS: Researchers have established the height of the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps with greater precision than ever before

ANALYSIS: Climate change raises major security threats that NATO cannot afford to ignore at its summit this week

NEWS: Shell could drill in fragile environment next year, despite failure to deal with tar sands pollution

NEWS: Gap between reality and public perception of climate science is reminiscent of MMR controversy, says NGO

NEWS: History could repeat itself if global warming is left unchecked, leading to people abandoning once-fertile areas

NEWS: Heat sinking into the Atlantic Ocean accounts for a slowdown in air temperature rises, scientists find

NEWS: NASA finds a banned ozone-depleting gas is still being emitted, in a blot on the Montreal Protocol’s record

NEWS: Arctic warming faster than most of Earth, while Antarctica appears to remain locked in a frigid embrace

ANALYSIS: Scientists, artists and policymakers pondered whether to hack the planet at a meeting in Berlin this week