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Brazil to build controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Amazon rainforest

Environmentalists and tribal leaders oppose massive flooding, while Brazil minister states 'not a single Indian will be displaced'

The Dilemma of Voluntary Climate Action

With the summer-long legislative recess over, the Senate prepares to dig into negotiations on climate legislation later this month. Most people expect a climate bill to eventually become law -- even after a fight similar to that of the House of Representatives' ACES Bill.

Tesco opens its first zero carbon store

Supermarket group Tesco, which pumps out some four million tonnes of carbon a year, today opened its first zero carbon store as part of its bid to be a carbon ­neutral company by 2050.

Nasa picture suggests Dubai globe is sinking back into the sea

This is how the world looks like according to ambitious engineers in Dubai, but it is starting to look rather ragged around the edges.

Ice Age Froze Europe In Months

Freako-frakkin-nomics notwithstanding, climate change is a thing of violent swiftness. New research indicates it took only months for Europe to freeze solid 12,800 years ago.

2009 review: It's the environment, stupid

It was the year of the Copenhagen conference and the "climategate" affair, but there was more to 2009 than these political brouhahas: here are 10 to remember.

Amazing Wildlife Video: The Best of the Camera Traps

Baby armadillos, rhinos charging the camera, a vampire bat feeding off a tapir, something called a grey-faced sengi, and much more.

Climate Change's First refugees

Pacific island nations are on the frontline of climate change, yet despite being seen as the first ‘victims,’ many are re-positioning themselves to lead the world in renewable energy infrastructure, writes Ben Bohane.

Climate change far worse than thought before

NEW DELHI: Global alarm over climate change and its effects has risen manifold after the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since then, many of the 2,500-odd IPCC scientists have found climate change is progressing faster than the worst-case scenario they had predicted.

How to save the world: What the experts think will be achieved in Copenhagen

With the UN talks on climate change beginning tomorrow, Jonathan Owen asks the experts what they think the conference will achieve.

Oceans Becoming Too Acidic for Marine Life, Scientists Warn

Far from Copenhagen’s turbulent climate talks, the sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters reposing along the shoreline and kelp forests Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary marine area, stand to gain from any global deal to cut greenhouse gases.

Rich and poor countries blame each other for failure of Copenhagen deal

Wealthy nations accused of bullying tactics to get developing countries to sign 'death warrant'.

Shifting from Climate Change to Planet Change

The COP15 experience extends well beyond the experiences inside and outside the Bella Center, where the attendees are queuing and negotiators struggling.

Met Office to release records that show global temperature rise

Records from nearly 2,000 stations worldwide may cool debate over leaked emails from University of East Anglia.

Rainforests turned into smoldering ruins

The land still smolders, tinted with a depressing gray. Twisted hulks of tree trunks take on abnormal shapes. A dark black canal cuts through the wasted landscape.

Expecting More from Copenhagen

Expectations for a climate treaty had been in a dramatic downward spiral until President Obama's meeting with Hu Jintao in Beijing this week, where they agreed to shoot for emissions targets, and press for an agreement at Copenhagen that would "rally the world."

World's Water Demand Now Exceeds Supply

There's good and bad news from a sweeping new report on the world's water scarcity out today from McKinsey & Co., commissioned by such water-dependent companies as Coca-Cola, Nestle, SAB Miller and Syngenta, along with the World Bank/International Finance Corp.

Global warming science alarming, say climate experts

Three UK groups studying climate change have issued an unprecedented statement about the dangers of failing to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.

Climate change survey says 83% willing to make sacrifices

More than 80 per cent of people believe climate change is a serious threat and are willing to make sacrifices to combat it, a survey by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) showed today.

Climate science statement

This is a joint statement from the Met Office, the Natural Environment Research Council and the Royal Society on the state of the science of climate change ahead of the Copenhagen climate conference.
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