Rich developed countries remain reluctant to compensate poorer nations financially for devastation wrought by increasingly extreme weather phenomena.
Global warming is the chief suspect in the case of the ever-worsening, ever-deadlier typhoons.
2013 is set to continue the trend of all the warmest years on record occuring after 1998, making it the seventh hottest year in recorded history.
Taking the devastation wrought on their country as a warning, the Philippine delegation at COP19 has called for urgent progress on climate change.
LTASs will help to inform key decisions on future development and adaptation planning.
An effective response to climate change depends on measures as comprehensive as the causes of what has been accepted as a global threat to life.
Climate Change Conference expected to determine the parameters of the global response to climate change beyond 2020.
First-world financial and technical skills with home-grown know-how can help in the fight to ensure food and water security in sub-Saharan Africa.
South Africa lacks centralised system for tracking and counting the funds.
Off the coast of South Africa, ocean robots are sending back information to help us to understand how the climate is changing.
Government is looking into reviving the launch facilities at the Overberg Test Range for a possible collaboration with Nasa.
The gentle, plankton-eating giants seem reluctant to mate in water lacking the nutrients needed to support life.
The world’s oceans are becoming warmer and more acidic. This will lead to mass extinctions this century, even if carbon dioxide emissions are cut.
The latest International Panel on Climate Change report takes a look at a world where natural systems dramatically alter over the coming century.
An encouraging investment climate takes priority over good climate-change intentions.
A comprehensive investigation into the factors that influence our climate has shown humans are definitely causing temperatures to rise.
A UN report due for release in 2014 has added the colour purple as the highest level for global warming – increasing the threat to natural systems.
The food being wasted yearly adds to the earth’s carbon emission and means that large amounts of land is used to grow food that is not consumed.
South Africa’s proposed carbon tax of R120 a tonne can reduce poverty and inequality, write Oxfam’s Thembinkosi Dlamini and Rashmi Mistry.
The normal rate of adaptation of many animals is not fast enough for them to evolve and survive predicted temperature increases this century.
The most comprehensive reconstruction of global climate change in the last two millennia has confirmed that temperatures are rapidly rising.
On average, the global temperature is 0.9C higher than a century ago, while global sea levels are 20cm higher than in 1880, says a report.
US President Barack Obama has touted his new climate change proposal, calling for Americans to lead the charge against the warming environment.
Climate-change sceptics would have you think that global warming has paused, but this is only surface warming. Beneath the waves, heat is building.
Climate change and increased temperatures will make asthma one of the biggest medical challenges of this century, say experts.
Reducing the energy bill helps lower your contribution to climate change.
South Africa has been an early adopter on a continent that has been hostile to the corporate power behind genetically modified organisms.
Research shows that the global concentration of CO2 emissions has risen to a level not seen in two million years.
South African companies are facing heavy taxes for their carbon emissions, but will this mean less tax for individuals?
An influential bank has decided to continue funding new high-carbon energy projects in Europe.
Only 0.7% of 4 000 papers published on the causes of climate change in the last two decades reject the idea that humans are driving climate change.
Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have hit 400 parts per million, a level not seen in two-million years.