With no road system within hundreds of miles of Kivalina, about 100 people, mostly seniors and children, boarded small propeller planes to the regional hub city of Kotzebue. More than 100 others embarked on a grueling 70-mile nighttime journey by boat, all-terrain vehicle and bus to shelter at the ...

Agriculture is responsible for 22% of greenhouse gases, with livestock making up 80% of that. Here's a way we can all cut down our impact and still enjoy the taste of meat....

The tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu is urging the rest of the world to do more to combat global warming, before the island-state sinks beneath the ocean's lapping waves....

A grouping of former heads of state will present a plan to G8 environment ministers meeting here Tuesday aimed at breaking the impasse between rich and poor countries over global warming....

The term “global warming” might be technically correct but I can’t really care about global “warming” when the temperature outside is -30 degrees Celsius. “Climate Change” is a better way to talk about the the global climate crisis. I think “climate crisis”, or “climate chaos” might convey better m...

Believed to be the largest worldwide petition on climate change, it contains the names of about 91,000 Australians....

The US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) publishes its data on conditions in the Arctic at the end of every summer, or “melt season”. This year’s details, released yesterday, show that levels of ice in the Arctic Ocean are lower than ever before....

An area of ice twice as big as the UK has disappeared in the last week alone, with new predictions of no summertime Arctic ice by 2030....

This summer appears to have been the wettest since rainfall records began in 1914, according to provisional data from the UK's Met Office.

Britain had 358.5mm of rain, just beating the 1956 record of 358.4mm.

The main reason for the high rainfall has been the unusually southerly position of ...

In Australia, a team of scientists led by Canberra University's Alex Quinn recently discovered that high temperatures could effectively "switch" the sex of central bearded dragons. Incubating the lizards' eggs at temperatures between 34°C and 37°C caused a majority of male embryos to hatch as f...