ENVIRONMENT

Extreme weather events will not change climate change sceptics' views on global warming.

Harking back on common but differentiated responsibilities on climate change, China has called on rich nations to do more than poor nations.

Hundred mud-brick homes destroyed and 100 roads blocked including six national highways in the south.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is on the increase for the first time in ten years.

Country is passing legislation to help meet ambitious climate change targets.

Coming after the UNEP report, the World Bank commissioned report finds the planet cannot avoid a rise in temperature and its damaging consequences.

Quake hits Nagano region 170km north-west of Tokyo, leaving traffic disrupted and 200 homes without power.

Sichuan province in western China was devastated by an earthquake in 2008 that killed 90,000.

The explosion happened about 12 miles off Louisiana's coast just before 3pm on Thursday.

Experts say this year will be the hottest since records began in 1880.

Designing circuits with suitable processes and materials, researchers are able to make electronic components disintegrate after their tasks are done.

Financial commitments have poured in from nations towards helping poor nations adapt to climate change, but actual investments have dropped.

Discovery of ancient canyon rules out popular theories of formation of Himalayas.

The UK's first ever bus powered on food waste and human poo has taken to the road today

Before and after photos of Mýrdalsjökull ice cap show shrinking over 30 years.

Small volcanic eruptions contribute to global cooling phenomenon, scientists find.

The arctic story led to a towering "wall of snow" six feet high

With the clearance of a road running through the Kutch wildlife sanctuary, flamingo populations are at risk.

Using computer simulations of movement of carbon dioxide, scientists can project future climate, says Nasa.

Scientists are revisiting controversial propositions to manipulate the atmosphere and slow down global warming.

Defra said that it isn't the deadly H5N1 strain.

Overexploitation by the food industry is pushing four species to the brink of extinction, while habitat destruction has already caused two others' extinction.

Dust storms seen in China and Africa, and picturised in the film Interstellar, can get more frequent once irreversible climate change begins.

Met Office spokesperson says six feet of snow is not on the cards.

UK yet to pledge anything to the crucial Green Climate Fund, while Canada and Australia refuse.

An IUCN report has detailed the benefits for protected areas from increasing tourism to the region.

Climate models suggest US will see 50% increase in lightning strikes before 2100

Scientists descend into newly-formed crater on Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia.

Surprise deal by superpowers likely to inspire other countries in pledge to reduce CO2 emissions.