Climate Change

The 62-hour non-stop flight was dangerous due to a lack of emergency landing sites.

Greg Hunt is criticised for making empty promises by the Greens.

Climate deal known as the Paris Agreement is set to be signed by more than 165 countries.

95% of staghorn coral has disappeared from the Caribbean, scientists say climate change and disease are to blame.

Water supplies in rural areas are widely contaminated with arsenic, affecting some 20 million people.

Nations will meet in New York today to sign the Paris Agreement set out at COP21 last year.

The Earth Day Network has an ambitious dream: to plant 7.8 billion trees by 2020.

Only 7% of 2,300km-long reef system left untouched by bleaching, survey says.

Length of heatwave breaks its own record since temperatures have been tracked for 137 years.

Coral's natural ability to withstand temperature change could be destroyed as seawater temperature rises.

A new, invisible form of air pollution, from diesel exhausts, causes around 9,500 premature deaths a year.

Stark warning that America's national parks are in danger due to sea level rises.

Warmer summers give shrubs longer growing seasons, so more food is available for moose in the cold winters.

Climate change denialism is not the same as scientific scepticism, researchers say.

73% of small islands will face freshwater shortages by 2050, as evaporation will exceed precipitation.

Favouring the economic interests of certain citizens over children may be unconstitutional says judge.

A new study suggests that human wastefulnesss and ecological disaster were not the sole contributors to its dwindling population

Shift in the distribution of global waters is changing the pole's location and the Earth's motion.

Study shows the Arctic had no sea ice at all between six and ten million years ago.

Reducing unnecessary food waste could lower greenhouse gas emissions by 14%.

The heat-related death toll could top 27,000 by 2100.

Scientists find four phases of societal collapse of Pueblo civilisation over 500 years.

The biggest shark ever found in the ocean was outcompeted for food

Models suggest early projections for sea level rise are incorrect, and we could see a 1m rise by 2100.

Paleontologists have dated the skull of a Siberian unicorn to 27,000 BC.

Only four of 520 northern reefs between Cairns and Torres Strait unaffected by bleaching.

The heat was 'relentless,' says director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Retired climate scientist James Hansen says sea levels could rise 'several meters' over 50-150 years.

India is facing chronic water shortages and drought, as rivers become increasingly polluted and groundwater reserves rapidly decline.

IBTimes UK speaks with Ethiopian official on government's effort to cope with worst drought in 50 years.