Latest climate change news
Gulf states facing social and economic crisis as oil revenues crash
NEWS: Declining oil revenues and young populations could land Middle East leaders with growing headache, says study
Corals everywhere could lose their colour in 2015 – NOAA
NEWS: US federal agency predicts mass die-off of the world’s coral reefs in 2015 as a result of climate change
Dash for coal threatens Indonesia climate goal, warns IEA
NEWS: Target to triple coal power generation in southeast Asia’s largest economy at odds with efforts to cut emissions, analysts say
Should journalists become climate change campaigners?
BLOG: Global warming is a threat, but complex subject matter and lack of regular climatic events makes covering it a challenge, say leading reporters
Carbon Fast Calendar: 40 days of Lenten green living
BLOG: Don’t want to quit chocolate? Cut down on carbon instead, suggests Global Catholic Climate Movement
Economists warn of “lost decade” risk for EU carbon market
NEWS: Ahead of key European Parliament vote next Tuesday, researchers urge early reform to prop up flagship climate policy
BP energy outlook highlights climate action gap
NEWS: BP forecasts a 37% rise in energy demand by 2035, blowing the emissions budget consistent with a 2C world
UK unveils plans for vast new offshore wind farm
NEWS: Dogger Bank off UK East Coast could host 400 turbines, powering up to 2 million homes, say developers
Tonga’s King talks climate change with Pope Francis
NEWS: King of Tonga discusses environment with the Pope, as Vatican gets its first Tongan Cardinal
G20 climate pledges likely to determine success of Paris summit
INTERVIEW: Commitment from handful of major economies to addressing global warming is critical, says top EU official Artur Runge Metzger
Catholics across globe to hold 40-day fast for the climate
NEWS: Catholics in 45 countries hope to send a climate message through their Lenten chain of fasting
APP turnaround offers hope for Indonesia’s tropical forests
ANALYSIS: Can the world’s biggest pulp and paper producer quit destroying rainforest and what difference does it make to the climate?
Global Divestment Day – in pictures
BLOG: From Berlin to Mumbai to the Marshall Islands, photographers captured the weird and wonderful divestment day protests
Brazil faces water rationing amid worst drought in 84 years
NEWS: Citizens of Sao Paulo are to have their tap water cut off five days a week in a bid to manage the supply crisis
Kyoto Protocol: 10 years of the world’s first climate change treaty
ANALYSIS: Hailed as an answer to global warming, the UN’s flagship climate treaty failed to curb carbon emissions, so what will its legacy be?
India’s solar targets ‘ambitious but achievable’ – UN climate envoy
NEWS: Michael Bloomberg, former New York mayor, hails opportunities created by falling cost of solar in India
Mapped: Voices of people most vulnerable to climate change
BLOG: Using photos and stories, people in the Arctic and small island states are documenting the disappearance of their land
China’s carbon emissions: did they really fall in 2014?
ANALYSIS: Reports suggest the world’s largest carbon polluter could be close to an emissions peak. But can we trust the data?
US central plains face “megadroughts” later this century
NEWS: Scientists in the US predict droughts worse than the hottest, most arid extended droughts of the 12th and 13th centuries
UK political leaders ink climate consensus ahead of election
NEWS: David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg have made a rare joint statement, committing to act on climate change