Scientists warned on Earth Day that we need to leave most of our remaining fossil fuel reserves in the ground to prevent climate change disaster.
Rajendra Pachauri has denied any wrongdoing, and claims that his email account and cellphone were hacked.
Using a divestment model, campaigners want to force companies to lower their carbon emissions.
Some climate change deniers in the United States Senate have realised they are increasingly out of step with the public.
The UN climate talks in Lima, Peru, head for weakened deals in Lima on limiting global warming as meetings continue for an extra day.
It’s still possible to stop global temperatures rising above the critical 2°C mark, but only if people are scared enough to force governments to act.
Latest research shows that eating less red meat would have a greater impact in cutting carbon emissions than giving up cars.
As May and June were globally the hottest in recorded history, the UN’s climate change body latest report says humans are driving global warming.
Global warming denialists once dined out on unscientific climate change studies, but consensus is now rising.
A study has revealed that increasing levels of carbon dioxide could adversely affect the nutrition levels in some of our most important food crops.
The United Nations says that 13 of the 14 warmest years on record have occured since the turn of the new millennium.
At a climate training conference in Johannesburg, former US vice-president Al Gore has given an overview of how humans are driving climate change.
China welcomed the Year of the Horse with toned down celebrations as people heeded govt pleas to go easy on firecrackers amid air pollution concerns.
The second-last day of the global climate change conference in Poland has seen 800 delegates walk out of the talks over a lack of progress.
Rich developed countries remain reluctant to compensate poorer nations financially for devastation wrought by increasingly extreme weather phenomena.
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.
A comprehensive investigation into the factors that influence our climate has shown humans are definitely causing temperatures to rise.
Scientists fear the Arctic could be entirely ice-free in summer by the middle of the century – if not sooner.
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.
China is spending almost R325-million to trigger rain artificially, which will help farmers whose crops are suffering in scorching summer weather.
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.
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.
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.
The debate over whether humans are driving climate change should be over. We need to start talking about adapting to this change, writes Sipho Kings.
If the world wants to survive the global crisis, it needs renewable energy and green-tech solutions, says Mark Swilling.
Protesters have denounced Shell’s "reckless" Arctic campaign, after it was forced to abandon drilling when a test of its protection systems failed.
Concerned countries want a new phase of the protocol to kick in immediately after it expires, writes Fiona Macleod.
A study has found only 30% of radical loss of the Arctic’s ice is due to natural variability in the Atlantic, and it will probably get worse.
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