Like most people living along the Sahel – the drylands between Africa’s tropical savannahs and the Sahara Desert – Mustafa Ba is all too familiar with the effects of desertification.

Lord Lawson’s climate-change think tank faces being dismantled or even wound down after a formal complaint that it has persistently misled the public prompted the statutory regulator to probe into the group.

Bigger waves could damage oil rig platforms and make it harder for staff to do their jobs

Chair of the cross-party Energy and Climate Change Committee issues warning ahead of vote on 2030 deadline for 'decarbonised' electrity supply

MP who oversees government policy on climate change says 'natural phases' may be the cause of climate change

Britain has challenged Europe to sign up to an ambitious target of cutting carbon emissions by 50 per cent by 2030.

Bank launches audit as outcry grows over links to Malaysian logging companies

Ministers are working furiously to complete the ambitious and important Energy Bill

A saving of £45bn should be good news,  but the study’s conclusions clash with the pursuit of gas

Beijing’s thaw over greenhouse gases seen as major step in battling climate change

Fears over proposed refinery in southern city of Kunming attracts thousands of protesters

Study concludes there is 1 in 20 chance that existing defences would be unable to cope with extreme storm surge

There will be a dramatic global decline in the number of animal and plant species this century if the world continues to procrastinate over measures to cut carbon dioxide emissions to limit climate change, a study has found.

IGas chief warns that any production of shale gas would involve 'flaring off' leakages

Greenhouse gases are making seawater toxic for many species of marine life, warn experts