climate change

Every month, climate scientists make new discoveries that advance our understanding of climate change's causes and impacts. The research gives a clearer picture of the threats we already face and…

Ten Hottest Years on Record The top 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 1998. In fact, 2016 was the hottest year ever recorded. What is Causing This? The previous decade was the…

Users of the social video app TikTok have been spreading a message of climate change awareness through make-up and time-lapse videos. Their chosen hashtag of #Globalwarning - a play on the term "…

Oceanographer Josh Willis from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory narrates this video about the causes of sea level rise and how sea level has changed over the last two decades as observed by the Jason…

International authoritative climate report states 2018 was the fourth warmest year on record. A new State of the Climate report confirmed that 2018 was the fourth warmest year in records dating to…

Here are seven ways of understanding the IPCC’s newest climate warning.

Famous climatologists, artists and I get personal on why we do climate work.

All of nature is infinitely connected. It is therefore no surprise that there are strong interdependencies between the resources that the land surface provides.

The UN report shows humans are having a devastating impact on the soil and vegetation it supports. Cutting fossil fuel emissions alone won't be enough to stop global warming, according to a new…

The role played by seaweed to mitigate greenhouse gasses might be more significant than initially thought, according to new research which discovered seaweed can travel far from its initial location…

In Africa, crop pests and disease have been hampering agriculture productivity for decades. Africa farmers lose an estimated 49% of expected total crop yield per annum—the highest in the world –…

Currently meat has reduced tax rate of 7 per cent but politicians say it should increase to 19. Germany could introduce a "meat tax" to protect the climate and improve animal welfare.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Almost 400 people more died in the Netherlands during Europe’s recent record-breaking heatwave than in a regular summer week, Dutch national statistics agency CBS said on Friday…

Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Global Director, United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network(UN SDSN) and Senior United Nations Advisor, visits Greece to mobilize the Sustainability Transition…

Less than two months ahead of a key September 23 UN Climate Summit in New York, a report published by UN Climate Change provides insights into action taken by governments to address climate change,…

Last week, South Africa celebrated its annual National Science Week with events, exhibitions and school activities happening across the country. Each year has a topical theme, with the previous year’…

Our world’s richest have a great deal of money. They also have the power to decide whether our civilization sinks or swims. So what can we do?

The quantity of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere keeps increasing. The Earth's temperature is rising. Now media are reporting that we only have 18 months to save the climate. Scaremongering, or a…

An updated analysis of the annual UK temperature records from the Met Office shows that since 1884 all of the UK’s ten warmest years have occurred since 2002; whereas none of the ten coldest years…

A new study has found that the ocean has absorbed more than 90 per cent of the heat gained by the planet between 1971 and 2010. The process of the ocean absorbing this heat leads to increase in…