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27 Sep 2013

Scientists, environmentalists and politicians reacted with concern yesterday as a UN climate panel warned temperatures could rise by as much as 4.8 degrees Celsius this century due to man's...

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6 Aug 2013

Glacier systems that feed two key rivers in South Asia will badly retreat this century, but demands for water are still likely to be met, a study predicted. The health of glaciers in the Himalayas...

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31 Jul 2013

Alarming images of a scientific observation buoy floating in what appeared to be an Arctic lake near the North Pole lit up the online world in the past week, sparking questions about whether this...

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26 Jul 2013

Rapid thawing of the Arctic could trigger a catastrophic "economic time bomb" which would cost trillions of dollars and undermine the global financial system, say a group of economists and polar...

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26 Jul 2013

The polar ice cap is melting, and if executives at the Russian energy company Novatek feel guilty about profiting from that, they do not let it be known in public. From this windswept shore of the...

2:45AM

The fate of the world's forests on a warming planet has long been one of the great unanswered questions about climate change. Now, new research is complicating the picture further, suggesting that...

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US President Barack Obama will give a major speech on climate change Tuesday in which he will propose a “national plan” to curb carbon pollution despite resistance from Congress.

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Many species of birds, amphibians and corals not now under threat will be at risk from climate change and have been wrongly omitted from conservation planning, according to an international study...

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Russia has ordered the urgent evacuation of the 16-strong crew of a drifting Arctic research station after the ice floe that hosts the floating laboratory began to disintegrate, officials said.

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More than half of common species of plants and a third of animal species are likely to see their living space halved by 2080 on current trends of carbon emissions, according to a new study.

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As fracking has boomed in recent years, energy experts have woken up to another unconventional source of natural gas. It is methane hydrate, and its potential reserves are huge.

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