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Visitors play eco-games at the Science Museum launch last month

Battling climate-change: How snakes and ladders could save the planet

Experts think putting eco-sensibility into fun childhood games will engage people more than 'misery messages'

Lydd Airport could take an extra 500,000 passengers a year

Go-ahead for Kent airport expansion angers green lobby

Investment and jobs are promised, but some fear the environmental price is too high

aerial view August 30, 2007, of the town of Ilulissat, Greenland

Greenland reaps benefits of global warming

Climate change is allowing agriculture to boom

Climate change will bring greater extremes in weather, warns Government's chief scientific adviser

Climate change will bring greater extremes in weather, the Government's outgoing chief scientific adviser has warned as he called for urgent action to tackle global warming.

The Sun shines intensely above a power station in the Californian sky

The world is hottest it has been since the end of the ice age - and the temperature's still rising

Report claims that by the year 2100 the earth will see temperatures not seen since the dawn of civilisation

Arctic ice-melt will bring frosty relations as nations navigate across North Pole

The loss if sea ice in the Arctic will allow ships to navigate freely across the North Pole by the middle of the century and could lead to unprecedented geo-political tensions between countries that have territorial claims in the region, scientists said.

Cracked earth of the drought-stricken Portodemouros reservoir in northern Spain. Worldwide concerns about climate change have dropped dramatically since 2009

Green fatigue sets in: the world cools on global warming

Worldwide concerns about climate change have dropped dramatically since 2009

Wasted heat from large cities affects temperatures in distant regions

The waste heat generated by large cities can affect temperatures in areas hundreds of miles away by changing wind patterns in the upper atmosphere, a study has found.

How the 'Kochtopus' stifled green debate

Behind the climate 'countermovement' are two billionaire brothers

The headquarters of Koch Industries in Wichita, Kansas

Exclusive: Billionaires secretly fund attacks on climate science

Audit trail reveals that donors linked to fossil fuel industry are backing global warming sceptics

Bolivia: Andes glaciers are melting fast

Glaciers in the Andes have shrunk by up to 50 per cent since the 1970s, and some could disappear altogether, a study warns.

Barack and Michelle Obama dance at the Inaugural Ball in Washington

Climate change Obama can believe in

Michael McCarthy on the inaugural speech that could herald a new era in the fight against global warming

Sir David Attenborough - Clare College, Cambridge
The naturalist won an Oxbridge scholarship in 1945 but remains modest, saying: 'I'm uneducated. I was never a real scientist'

Humans are a 'plague on Earth': Sir David Attenborough warns that negative effects of population growth will come home to roost

TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough has warned that human beings have become a “plague on the Earth”.

How to catch illegal logging in the Amazon? Make the trunk call

Mobile phones fitted to trees in an attempt to tackle illegal logging and deforestation

EU commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard

Fiddling while Rome burns – the £3trn cost of climate delay

Expert warns that Doha agreement to wait until 2020 to tackle global warming is a mistake

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James Lawton

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The true effect of the badger cull

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Girls Guides drop religious reference but pledge to self and the Queen

Guides drop religious reference but pledge to self and the Queen

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Steve Tongue

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Chris Froome: Free from 'pain in neck' after Bradley Wiggins' exit

Chris Froome: Free from 'pain in neck' after Wiggins' exit

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