Executives of leading fossil fuel companies should take personal liability for funding climate change denial and obstructing the implementation of green policies, environmental groups have said....
Chloe Maxmin, co-ordinator of the student-led Divest Harvard initiative, describes her fight to get the prestigious US university to ditch its fossil fuel investments. Two things...
The United Nations World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has warned that time is running out to cut rising greenhouse gas emissions, after atmospheric concentrations of carbon reached...
The growing demand for bioenergy will exert “unparalleled and unsustainable” new pressures on the world’s land and forests, according to campaign group Friends of the Earth (FoE)...
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, now in his new role as a UN special envoy, said on Tuesday that it is cities and their...
Americans are more likely to engage with and support action to stop ‘global warming’, rather than ‘climate change’, according to new research that found people react...
A peat bog almost 166,000 sq km in diameter has been discovered in Congo-Brazzaville by a team of researchers – sparking huge interest from the scientific...
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Ancient carbon-rich soils, buried deep beneath the earth’s surface, can contribute to climate change thanks to human activities, new research has shown. In a new study...
The electorate is often highly sceptical of politicians and the Westminster, Holyrood, Pierhead and Belfast villages. But healthy scepticism has slipped into an unhealthy cynicism and...
Prominent environmental campaigner Bill McKibben has issued a “call to arms” to everyone concerned about the lack of international action on climate change, urging them to...
Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer has said he will target the campaigns of seven US senate and governors this year, in an attempt to make climate...
The impacts of climate change, ranging from extreme weather events to rising sea levels, will make it much harder to feed a growing population, two new...
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The disappearance of melting ice sheets, caused by global warming, may have a small silver lining, scientists have said. A new study suggests that summer meltwaters...