‘This year’s inaction brings us one step closer to a future with a climate that is incompatible with dignified life’

‘It is very serious…it is an increasing concern that this is happening rapidly on so many fronts’

In the lottery of evolution, genetic diversity is like buying a lot of tickets, scientist says after study finds how one coral species managed to ride out extreme cold that descended on most of the Earth two million years ago

The effects of global warming are being felt from Antarctica to Iceland and from France to India

Senior Nasa scientist suggests he could resign if Donald Trump tries to skew climate change research results

Damage caused by rising seas, increased storms and other climate-related problems pose 'a very serious challenge to poverty eradication efforts in the developing world'

The US Republican Party is now 'the most dangerous organisation in world history', US academic says

Experts are concerned that millions of tons of tiny debris from plastic bags, bottles and clothes in the world’s oceans could have potentially harmful effects on the body

Britain reaches green turning point as electricity was completely coal-free for nearly six days over the last quarter

At around 1:30pm (GMT) this afternoon, the Earth, sun and moon will be almost perfectly in a line (an effect known as a ‘syzygy’), with the moon directly opposite the sun

'Ensuring that we maintain energy security, energy affordability and meet emissions reductions, that is not a matter of ideology,' says Australia's right-of-centre Prime Minister

Life on Earth has already been fundamentally altered by global warming, affecting the genes of plants and animals and altering every ecosystem on the planet, according to a major review of the scientific literature.

TV audiences cheered on the iguanas' escape, but won't somebody think of the poor snakes?

President elect has pledged to back fracking and coal but manifesto makes no mention of green power

'The UK cannot leave the issue of cliff erosion unresolved in the face of a warming world and rising sea level'

Researchers use radioactive particles from nuclear bomb tests to prove most seized ivory is not from historic stockpiles or antique collections amid crisis that threatens extinction of iconic animals

'We will grieve over the avoidable human tragedy; the growing numbers of climate refugees hit by hunger, poverty, illness and conflict will be a constant reminder of our failure to deliver'

'Fuzzy maths' and dodgy accounting are being used by wealthiest nations to 'overstate the actual support provided to developing countries by a large margin', Oxfam says

Government knowingly relied on 'optimistic' vehicle emissions tests and ignored 'higher, more realistic' figures in order to delay action by up to a decade, judge says