- Tim Radford
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New research on soil, ponds and lakes means a rethink is needed on how to help tackle climate change by balancing the carbon budget.
New research on soil, ponds and lakes means a rethink is needed on how to help tackle climate change by balancing the carbon budget.
Warming seas and increasing acidification could mean starvation and extinction for creatures that live in the abyss of the deep ocean.
WWF-Brazil fears that a bill to open up more than 1 million hectares of protected Amazon rainforest
Scientists seek precision research tools to measure how human impacts and inequalities will feed back into future climate change.
Climatologists say there is an almost 50% chance that the Labrador Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean will cool rapidly within the next decade.
The effects of continued global warming on Alpine snow cover could have a devastating impact on Switzerland’s winter sports industry.
Ocean scientists will pick 50 coral reefs worldwide to test ways to limit damage from climate change, pollution and over-fishing that threatens to wipe out 90 percent of all reefs by 2050, according to a plan...
One of the longest US waterways, the Colorado River, has lost 20% of its flow since the year 2000, with the changing climate mostly responsible.
The Trump administration has begun the third, most formidable White House-led attempt in EPA’s brief history to diminish the agency’s regulatory capacity.
Australian scientists are studying air pollution and cloud formation in Antarctica in an effort to understand how non-carbon aerosolised particles impact on global temperatures. It’s the first comprehensive study of the composition and concentration...
Shipping industry is ordered to reduce its climate-damaging CO
Scientists have figured out an Ice Age paradox and their findings add to mounting evidence that climate change could bring higher seas than most models predict.
California's biblical deluge has occupied many a meteorologists’ mind this February. But another notable story is unfolding across the eastern U.S. Unseasonable warmth has kickstarted spring up to a month early in the Southeast, cut into already paltry Great Lakes ice cover...
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote soon on whether to use the Congressional Review Act to kill an Obama administration climate regulation that cuts methane emissions from oil and gas wells on federal land. The rule was designed to reduce oil...
The frequency of hail storms, thunderstorms, and high wind events has decreased by nearly 50 percent on average throughout China since 1960.
UK environmental campaigner Bryony Worthington says China’s positive action on climate change is much more significant than Donald Trump’s threat to exit the Paris agreement.
The UK is poised to exploit tidal energy, a new renewable source that is cheaper than nuclear and more reliable than wind.
Researchers have moved one step closer to the dream of the renewables industry:
Entrepreneurs bringing solar energy systems to farms in developing countries challenge for sustainability charity’s prestigious awards.
Biologists warn that the effects of climate change on wild creatures are creating a much greater extinction threat than policymakers realise.
UK researchers show how raising the water table can improve crop yields, reduce the loss of peatland soils and help cut CO2 emissions.
Dramatic increase in ice loss from the Arctic glaciers of Canada’s northernmost archipelago is now a major contributor to sea level rise.
A musical protest at the Rio carnival will stress the damaging impacts of factory farming on indigenous people and on global warming.
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