Latest climate change news
Tropical deforestation could cause 0.7C temperature rise
NEWS: Rainforests are the “sweat glands” of the world and losses could wreak havoc with farming, researchers warn
From Kalimantan to Lima: Where do women stand in climate?
ANALYSIS: Female representation in UN climate talks is increasing; on the ground, women are still marginalised
EU decides to ratify Kyoto Protocol extension
NEWS: Move by Brussels offers some integrity to beleaguered treaty, one year before UN hopes to agree global climate deal
Beijing reveals bottom-up approach to national carbon market
NEWS: Chinese central government will set regional caps on emissions and leave distribution of permits to provincial authorities
People power central to solving Latin America’s air pollution crisis
COMMENT: Citizen-led initiatives in the developing world have the potential to transform cities for the good
2014 likely to be Europe’s warmest since 1500s
NEWS: Calls for climate compensation from top polluters likely to grow as odds on warming years plummet
Beaver resurgence ups climate warming methane emissions
NEWS: Since the decline of fur trapping, beaver populations have exploded, increasing methane generation from dammed ponds
Greenpeace promises to make amends for Nazca Lines stunt
NEWS: The Peruvian government is seeking to extradite activists who damaged world heritage site, on charges that carry 6-year jail sentence
Australia will respond to climate pressure – David Cameron
NEWS: UK prime minister calls on Canberra to step up and make a greater contribution to cutting climate-warming emissions
Cheap coal poses climate and health dilemma for India
NEWS: Experts warn coal use is growing unsustainably, in the absence of effective regulation or support for low carbon development
Winners and losers at the UN’s Lima climate talks
ANALYSIS: No one country can leave Peru saying it got everything it wanted, but the building blocks of a global deal remain in place
With $10bn banked, what next for the Green Climate Fund?
COMMENT: Money on its own is not enough – countries need to learn how to use finance more efficiently and transparently
Emissions growth slows as economies clean up – research
NEWS: Fossil fuel use and industries emitted a record 35.3Gt of CO2 in 2013, but slowdown shows economies depend less on polluting industry
US-China chat broke impasse at Lima climate talks
NEWS: Warming relationship between superpowers key as countries work towards global emissions deal in 2015
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
Lima Call for Climate Action – what was decided?
BRIEFING: Details on key agreements reached at the UN’s COP20 climate change conference in Peru
Nine lessons from the Lima climate talks
BLOG: Latin American cities are choking to death, that US-China emissions pact didn’t solve everything and other nuggets from COP20
Late deal in Lima saves UN climate talks from collapse
UPDATED: Hopes for 2015 agreement to slow global warming remain alive after dramatic late deal in Peru