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Africa’s extensive network of national parks is failing to stem the decline of large mammals, according to a new study.
The United Nations is to commission an independent group of top scientists to review its climate change panel.
Chinese scientists claim to be able to control precipitation. But is so-called geo-engineering more than wishful thinking?
The world must address climate change with or without the US, writes David Adam
New predictions of global warming outstrip earlier worst-case scenarios, reports David Adam.
Fish stocks around the world are still collapsing but there are encouraging signs of change.
Painting your roof white could help slow climate change by reflecting sunlight back into space. So would painting the moon.
A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said last year it was ”likely” that global warming meant more intense cyclones in future.
Man-made pollution is spreading a growing number of suffocating dead zones across the world’s seas with disastrous consequences for marine life.
It has long been the holy grail for those who believe that technology can save us from catastrophic climate change: a device that can ”suck” carbon dioxide from the air.
Developing countries, including China and India, are unwilling to sign up to a new global climate-change pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol in 2012 because the rich world has…
Rising food prices could spark worldwide unrest and threaten political stability, the United Nations’s top humanitarian official warned on Tuesday after two days of rioting in…
Scientists warned this week that global warming will be "stronger than expected and sooner than expected", after a new analysis showed carbon dioxide is accumulating in the…
A UK supermarket aims to tell its consumers how much pollution is caused by the goods they buy. David Adam reports.
A critical meltdown of ice sheets and severe sea level rise could be inevitable because of global warming, the world’s scientists are preparing to warn their governments. New…
A radical plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions by rationing the carbon use of individuals is being drawn up by British government officials. The scheme could force consumers to…
European officials are under mounting pressure to tighten the pollution limits on European industry in the second phase of its flagship emissions trading scheme. Such a move is…
Flowerbeds and hanging baskets are banned, but patios are legitimate. The driveway is allowed, although the car parked there is off limits. And commercial vehicles can still be…
Humans have provoked the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs were wiped out 65-million years ago, according to a United Nations report that calls for unprecedented…
Scientists working in Antarctica have discovered an alarming rise in sea temperature that threatens to disrupt populations of penguins, whales, seals and a host of smaller…
