Reports from the Arctic are getting pretty grim. The latest, from a blog called Arctic News, warns that by 2026 — that’s just nine years from now — warming above the Arctic Circle could be so extreme...

The long read: As global temperatures rise, shrivelling glaciers and thawing permafrost threaten yet more climate disruption. How should we confront what is happening to our world?

Scientists warn policymakers not to ignore links, and stress that ‘every action counts’

Nick Breeze interviews professor John Schellnhuber, who set up the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in 1991 to study climate.

The sun sets at Juliette, Ga., behind the coal-fired facility known as Plant Scherer, one of the nation's top carbon dioxide emitters. (Branden Camp / AP

World-renowned political dissident Noam Chomsky discusses climate change.

The IPCC has been criticized for being "too alarmist. If anything, it is the opposite. With their latest report, they have been overly conservative."

There are trillions of reasons for the world to prevent temperatures from rising more than 1.5 ˚C, the aspirational target laid out in the Paris climate agreement, according to a new study. The...

The world has two years to secure a deal for nature to halt a ‘silent killer’ as dangerous as climate change, says biodiversity chief

The scientists who revealed what caused the “greatest crisis in the history of life of Earth”, have called for immediate action to halt the further warming of the planet through human caused climate

A scientific model has suggested that society will collapse in less than three decades due to catastrophic food shortages if policies do not change.

And they are the only thing keeping us from planet-wide environmental catastrophe.

The greatest extinction event in the history of the planet was driven by oceans acidifying about as fast as they are today.

Insects are vanishing even in a pristine tropical forest, and an ecologist calls this "one of the most disturbing articles I have ever read.”

As the world's population grows and the planet warms, demand for water will rise but its quality and reliability is expected to deteriorate.

Simultaneous harvest failures in key regions would bring global famine, says the Met Office

Study By Ecologists, Economists Predicts Collapse of World Ocean Ecology

See how global emissions break down into sectors ranging from air transport to rice cultivation

Authors of report on bird declines say intensive farming and pesticides could turn Europe’s farmland into a desert that ultimately imperils all humans

Borneo has lost a "shocking" number of its great apes, according to a new survey of the island.

As plastic waste pollutes the oceans and fish stocks decline, unseen below the surface another problem grows: deoxygenation. Breitburg et al. review the evidence for the downward trajectory of oxygen...

Between 20 and 30 percent of the world’s land surface could soon face desertlike conditions.

We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there.

In mid-July, as Prime Minister Gillard began to stump the countryside selling her carbon package, a conference at the University of Melbourne considered the prospect of climate policy failure....

On October 31st a select group of UK scientists launched a Declaration of Rebellion against the UK government at the Houses of Parliament: “For criminal inaction in the face of climate change...

Twenty-five years ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1700 independent scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates in the scie