North American scientists call for end to tar sands mining:
More than 100 US and Canadian scientists publish letter saying tar sands crude should be relegated to fuel of last resort, because it causes so much pollution
Stanford professors urge withdrawal from fossil fuel investments:
Faculty members call on university to recognise urgency of climate
change and divest from all oil, coal and gas companies
Much of world's fossil fuel reserve must stay buried to prevent climate change, study says:
New research is first to identify which reserves must not be burned to keep global temperature rise under 2C, including over 90% of US and Australian coal and almost all Canadian tar sands
Why the 2015 Paris summit cannot be allowed to fail
Fossil fuels should be phased out by 2100 says IPCC:
The unrestricted use of fossil fuels should be phased out by 2100
if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change,
a UN-backed expert panel says.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says in a stark report
that most of the world's electricity can - and must - be
produced from low-carbon sources by 2050.
If not, the world faces "severe, pervasive and irreversible" damage.
Mark Carney: most fossil fuel reserves can't be burned -
Bank of England governor lends his support to 'carbon bubble' theory that coal, gas and oil assets are at risk
Climate report finds 'irreversible' damage to planet
Vancouver taking NEB to court over climate change, Kinder Morgan pipeline
Miami, the great world city, is drowning while the powers that be look away:
Low-lying south Florida, at the front line of climate change in the US, will be swallowed as sea levels rise. Astonishingly, the population is growing, house prices are rising and building goes on. The problem is the city is run by climate change deniers
The UK is making it a legal duty to maximise greenhouse gas emissions
Climate change wreaking havoc in America's backyard, scientists warn:
- Scientists hope to spur US to action with dire warning
- Obama plans push to amplify findings of definitive report
World must end 'dirty' fuel use - UN: A long-awaited UN report on how to curb climate change says the world must rapidly move away from carbon-intensive fuels.
Desmond Tutu calls for anti-apartheid style boycott of fossil fuel industry:
Nobel peace prize winner calls for organisations to cut ties with industry and for investors to dump fossil fuel stocks
The new threat from shale
Health of oceans 'declining fast'
IPCC: 30 years to climate calamity if we carry on blowing the carbon budget:
Global 2C warming threshold will be breached within 30 years,
leading scientists report, with humans unequivocally to blame
Canadian government doubles advertising spend on tar sands
Climate research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey finds:
Of more than 4,000 academic papers published over 20 years, 97.1% agreed that climate change is anthropogenic
Climate change 'will make hundreds of millions homeless':
Carbon dioxide levels indicate rise in temperatures that could lead agriculture to fail on entire continents
Global carbon dioxide in atmosphere passes milestone level:
Climate warming greenhouse gas reaches 400 parts per million for the first time in human history
Meteorite crater reveals future of a globally warmed world:
Lake sediments recorded the climate of the Arctic during the last period when CO2 levels were as high as today
Carbon bubble will plunge the world into another financial crisis:
Trillions of dollars at risk as stock markets inflate value of fossil fuels that may have to remain buried forever, experts warn
Media campaign against windfarms funded by anonymous conservatives:
Secretive funding network channelled millions to stop state governments moving towards renewable energy
Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks
Massive melting of Andes glaciers:
Glaciers in the tropical Andes have shrunk by 30-50% since the 1970s, according to a study.
The glaciers, which provide fresh water for tens of millions in South America, are retreating at their fastest rate in the past 300 years.
Amazon showing signs of degradation due to climate change, Nasa warns
US scientists in fresh alert over effects of global warming
West Antarctica warming faster than thought, may accelerate rising sea level: study
Mississippi river faces shipping freeze as water levels drop:
Navigation has become treacherous as the worst US drought in half a century brings water levels close to record lows
The World Bank's climate hypocrisy:
Last week, the bank said 4C of global warming 'simply must not be allowed
to occur'. This month, it is considering whether to provide financing
for a new coal-fired power plant in Mongolia
Carbon emissions are 'too high' to curb dangerous climate change
The Arctic "Death Spiral":
Geoengineering may be our best chance to save what sea ice is left
Emissions cuts too slow to fight climate change, warns UN report:
Concentration of carbon dioxide in atmosphere is up 20% since 2000, says report released days before climate talks in Doha
More than 1,000 new coal plants planned worldwide, figures show
Spring snow pack in the Arctic disappearing fast, Environment Canada warns
Melting icecap puts Europe's woes in perspective
Arctic ice melting at 'amazing' speed, scientists find
Climate Change Could Erode Ozone Layer Over U.S.
Climate change study forces sceptical scientists to change minds:
Earth's land shown to have warmed by 1.5C over past 250 years,
with humans being almost entirely responsible
How Clean is Your Cloud
Trends in Global CO2 Emissions
Research on oil-sands impact cost centre its funding, scientists say
Coal's resurgence undermines fight against global warming
Nations at odds on Rio+20 summit
Top US companies shelling out to block action on climate change
Governments failing to avert catastrophic climate change, IEA warns
Fossil-fuel subsidies: Helping the richest get richer
Fourteen arrested blocking BNSF coal train in White Rock
You can't take the tar sands out of the climate equation
Shale gas 'worse than coal' for climate
Bill Gates backs climate scientists lobbying for large-scale geoengineering
World headed for irreversible climate change in five years
The last great global warming
Oceans on brink of catastrophe
Six steps to hell