More than 99% of all major global airlines have complied with the first step of Europe’s scheme to charge them for their carbon emissions.
A report released by Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has found that the country’s climate is set to become drier and warmer.
Climate change denialists are giving rise to the wrong kind of debate necessary to arrest global warning, writes <b>Sipho McDermott</b>.
Conference on how to curb carbon emissions generates tonnes of the stuff.
Leading scientists have complained that a <i>Wall Street Journal</i> article disputing climate change is akin to "dentists practising cardiology".
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/ 29 November 2011
The UN’s weather agency says greenhouse gas levels are reaching critical levels, and meteorologists say warming in SA is worse than the global trend.
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/ 9 November 2011
Global warming has spread the tsetse fly, which carries sleeping sickness, down to Southern Africa, threatening tens of millions more people.
The social, financial and environmental impact of companies is coming under the spotlight.
Carbon-dioxide emissions hit a record high last year, the International Energy Agency has said.
China has issued new targets to curb carbon output and improve efficiency in using energy and water, state media reported on Monday.
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/ 23 February 2011
The world’s coral reefs could be wiped out by 2050 unless urgent action is taken to stop threats posed to the "rainforests of the sea".
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/ 10 December 2010
The world’s climate negotiators worked into early Friday morning amid guarded hopes of making progress.
It has been a summer of record temperatures — Japan had its hottest summer on record, as did South Florida and New York.
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/ 24 November 2009
The leaked correspondence by climate scientists is disturbing, but only a far greater conspiracy would justify sceptics’ claims.
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/ 25 October 2009
Activists around the world on Saturday marched in an effort to mobilise public opinion against global warming ahead of a crucial UN climate summit.
Graphic images that reveal the devastating impact of global warming in the Arctic have been released by the United States military.
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/ 27 January 2009
United States President Barack Obama on Monday began to shred Bush administration climate policies.
Saving the planet by eating kangaroos and wild camels may seem like pie in the sky, but the offbeat menu comes with a scientific stamp of approval.
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/ 21 December 2008
Barack Obama ushered in a revolution in the US response to global warming on Saturday when he appointed a leading climate-change expert to his team.
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/ 17 December 2008
Despite a winning concept amid global climate concerns, Norwegian electric carmaker Think may see its dreams come to a screeching halt.
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/ 14 December 2008
After a year in which it nearly lost its compass, the campaign against climate change heads into 2009 needing top-level political commitment.
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/ 26 November 2008
Unable to hammer out a plan to fight global warming, Europe has ruined its ambition to lead the world at upcoming climate talks.
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/ 24 November 2008
A report has called for rich nations to make the first cuts in greenhouse gases while developing countries carry on as usual for the time being.
More than half of the colonies of Antarctica’s penguins face decline or being wiped out if the world warms by two degrees Celsius, says a new report.
An offbeat suggestion that Australians should eat kangaroos instead of cattle and sheep has been given a scientific stamp of approval.
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/ 30 September 2008
Dainty blue fish dart around coral shaped like moose antlers near the Mexican resort of Cancun, but sickly brown spots are appearing.
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/ 23 September 2008
Most consumers want companies to do more to protect the environment and reckon that firms should play a leading role in fighting global warming.
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/ 10 September 2008
A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said last year it was ”likely” that global warming meant more intense cyclones in future.
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/ 7 September 2008
People should have one meat-free day a week to help tackle climate change, says the world’s leading authority on global warming.
Time is running out in the fight against global warming, the United Nations’s top climate change official warned as new talks got under way.
Man-made pollution is spreading a growing number of suffocating dead zones across the world’s seas with disastrous consequences for marine life.
The so-called ”consensus” view (the mainstream view that climate change is being caused by humans) is not reached by democratic decision-making.