Research
Five steps to saving Brazil’s Amazon rainforest
NEWS: Destruction of rainforest likely to endanger global climate unless it can be stopped and restored
Rising concern over invisible threat to Antarctic glaciers
NEWS: As ocean temperatures rise, warmer currents are attacking the Antarctic ice sheet from below, say scientists
Kennedy Space Centre operations face growing climate threat
NEWS: Rising sea levels and repeated storm damage to natural coastal defences pose challenge to NASA operations
Climate adaptation costs could hit $1trn a year by 2050 – UN
NEWS: The cost of protecting people from climate change impacts are likely to be 2-3 times previous estimates, finds UN report
Could geoengineering make climate change worse?
NEWS: Resorting to geoengineering to tackle climate change would be an admission of failure, UK scientists say
October 2014 ‘warmest on record’ – NOAA
NEWS: US weather agency says October 2014 broke all the records – and that the year is on track to be the hottest ever
Pacific Islands face bleak future as 1.5C warming target slips away
NEWS: Countries need to accept radical carbon cuts over next decade to avoid worst climate impacts says UN
Hottest ever ocean temperatures signal end of warming “pause”
NEWS: Ocean temperatures break new record, as 2014 looks set to be hottest year ever
Geoengineering: Pumping iron into oceans could backfire
NEWS: Iron fertilisation of oceans stimulates carbon sucking plankton, but could also lead to rise in CO2 emitting sea-life
Who’s to blame for climate change?
ANALYSIS: Scientists are starting to undertake the politically dangerous task of figuring out who can be blamed for extreme weather disasters
Why can’t academics agree whether climate change causes wars?
ANALYSIS: A fight between rival academics over climate change and conflict has important messages for peacekeepers, says Alex Randall
IPCC climate report: evidence humans warming planet “unequivocal”
NEWS: UN science report provides final warning on climate change ahead of 2015 international emissions cutting deal
Climate marathon: IPCC nears finish line for seminal report
NEWS: Scientists and officials will need to sift through over 200 comments, ranging from grammatical errors to strategic concerns
Climate change could create more Boko Haram extremists – study
NEWS: Drought, famine and crop failures could destabilise 32 countries in Africa and Asia, warn risk analysts
UK invests £97m in weather and climate supercomputer
NEWS: The Met Office says the system, 13 times more powerful than its existing capacity, will bring £2 billion of benefits
US and UK call on UN science panel to stress climate risks
NEWS: Comments on draft IPCC ‘synthesis’ report show governments want to make clear the dangers of global warming
Sea level could rise ‘height of man’ by 2100
NEWS: Scientists say sea level unlikely to rise beyond 1.8m by end of century – a rise still disastrous for tropical fishermen
Sweden rated as ‘world’s greenest country’
NEWS: New report ranks countries’ green performance, next to how well they’re perceived to be performing
Arctic ice melt sends Alaskan temperatures soaring by 7C
NEWS: Scientists in the northern Alaska outpost of Barrow have linked 7C temperature rise to the decline in Arctic sea ice
Sahel faces food crisis as population surges towards one billion
NEWS: Human numbers are rising in one of the world’s driest regions, but harvest levels could suffer from climate change