Climate science
Climate data from 2013 shows clear signs of warming
NEWS: Greenhouse gases continued to climb, with concentrations of major gases reaching historically high levels say scientists
Funding adaptation: rich countries need to deliver before Paris
COMMENT: A successful UN climate deal in 2015 will require guaranteed flows of support for climate vulnerable countries, writes Saleemul Huq
June 2014 was hottest on record since 1880 – NOAA
NEWS: Latest data shows land and sea temperatures broke records stretching back to 1880
Australian droughts caused by manmade emissions
NEWS: Burning fossil fuels is drying out Australia, new research shows, as government axes carbon tax
UN and National Geographic atlases illustrate climate impacts
NEWS: Two new atlases show the retreat of Arctic ice and the human and economic price exacted by extreme weather
Meet the sceptics: why science can’t compete with beachballs
SKETCH: Controversial climate economist Richard Tol speaks in the UK parliament – when he can get a word in edgeways
Scale of Amazon rainforest carbon loss revealed
NEWS: Forest conservation programmes must address logging and wildfires, large scale Amazon study shows
UN handed masterplan to tackle climate change
NEWS: New study says 15 countries could hold key to ensuring world avoids dangerous levels of warming
Pakistan faces ‘environmental cataclysm’ warn officials
NEWS: Governments in Islamabad and Delhi are not preparing for potential climate impacts, says new research
Warming Antarctic leaves iconic emperor penguin on brink
NEWS: Loss of Antarctic sea ice through climate change threatens the emperor penguin’s habitat say scientists
Indonesia deforestation now ‘worse than Brazil’
NEWS: Indonesia’s forest loss is accelerating each year, despite a moratorium on logging, study finds
India and China farmers back new climate adaptation alliance
NEWS: A network of 25 indigenous mountain communities is sharing information – and seeds – for a climate-proof future
WMO: 80% chance of El Niño by December 2014
NEWS: UN’s World Meteorological Association now more certain that El Niño will hit by end of year
Greenland ice sheet reveals past vulnerability
NEWS: Greenland ice melt caused sea levels to rise several metres some 400,000 years ago, at temperatures expected this century
EU climate costs warning as leaders meet for Brussels summit
NEWS: Region faces €190 billion bill by 2080s if nothing is done to arrest temperature rise, says official report
Climate change threatens US business warn Bloomberg and Paulson
NEWS: Climate change could halve crop yields and submerge property worth $500 billion this century
North Carolina air pollution cuts ‘saved lives’
NEWS: Improving air quality linked with fewer deaths from lung disease and pneumonia say scientists
May 2014 hottest on Planet Earth since 1880
NEWS: Average temperatures 0.74C higher than 20C average say US government scientists
Solar thermal has a future as low carbon, back-up power
NEWS: Solar thermal power has a role alongside wind and solar PV, in a low carbon world
Evidence grows that warming Arctic may cause extreme weather
NEWS: A warming Arctic may change the weather for hundreds of millions of people