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Melting Arctic ice set to expose hazardous waste from Cold War-era top-secret experiments
Camp Century infrastructure and waste was abandoned in 1967, believed to have been buried forever.
Stunned US scientists probe sudden 'unprecedented' death of coral in Gulf of Mexico marine sanctuary
Dead and dying coral covered with strange white growth absolutely 'sickening' says researcher.
Alaska's woolly mammoths drove themselves to extinction 5,600 years ago
As St Paul Island shrank access to freshwater became increasingly scarce, eventually wiping out the population.
Hillary Clinton calls election a 'moment of reckoning' in historic speech
Nation's first-ever major party female candidate for president hails falling barriers and calls Trump dangerous.
Heavy climate change storms threaten buried Native American villages on California coast
'We're going to lose a huge number of sites' warns site archaeologist.
UK Solar power industry decimated by Government subsidy cuts
Extrapolated data from a new survey suggests a third of solar industry jobs have been lost in the last 12 months.
London summers could soar to 48C as UK 'not prepared' for climate change domino effects
Experts have warned that flooding, heatwaves and water shortages will severely impact food prices.
Mesolithic period: Climate change did not help drive technological innovation in Stone Age humans
Environmental record from Africa contradict popular theory about Stone Age innovation.
China hit by deadly floods and landslides after days of continuous torrential rain
The extreme weather has been blamed on an El Nino so strong that Nasa nicknamed it Godzilla.
Carbon budget: How funding cuts stalled the fight against climate change and shredded the UK's reputation
Cutting a £1bn green tech fund set back the fight against climate change and left the UK's global standing in tatters.
World Bank lends $1bn for Modi's pet solar energy project
Global lender's funding comes as a huge boost for Modi's flagship solar energy programme.
Antarctica penguin colonies face stark decline by the end of century due to global warming
Penguin colonies could drop 60% by the end of the century.
Stalagmites in China tell the story of the Asian Monsoon and the end of ice ages
Dating stalagmites and measuring oxygen isotope levels allows researchers a clearer picture of past climate.
Brexit makes tackling climate change 'a harder road' says Energy Secretary Amber Rudd
Climate change is 'long-term risk to economic and national security' says energy and climate change secretary.
Siberia's larch forest lagging behind climate change by several thousand years
Previous ice ages can inform us about how quickly vegetation evolves with climate change.
Vital California kelp forests vanishing due to global warming
Aerial surveys reveal 93% of kelp canopy north of San Francisco disappeared between 2008 to 2014.
St Kilda: Scottish National Trust fund to preserve Europe's largest colony of nesting seabirds
It's been 86 years since anyone lived on St Kilda, after the tough way of life had become unsustainable.
Ice Age giants: Climate change and human hunting created perfect storm for megafauna extinction
'Megafauna' species in Patagonia such as the giant jaguar became extinct in just a few hundred years.
Bramble Cay melomys: Great Barrier Reef rodent is first mammal to go extinct from climate change
Australian researchers confirm the Bramble Cay melomys become extinct from man-made climate change.
Siberia's mystery 'end of the world' crater formed after massive explosion heard 100km away
Russian scientist examines the mystery crater that appeared in Siberia three years ago.
Pandas don't like it hot: Species threatened by rising temperatures, not lack of bamboo
There is enough bamboo for more pandas to be reintroduced but heat may threaten their survival.
Great Barrier Reef: Powerful images reveal utter devastation of once-pristine corals
Aftermath photos of mass bleaching event show slime-covered coral skeletons at Lizard Island.
Climate change's impact on Indian Ocean reefs laid bare by haunting pictures
Global coral bleaching event photographed spreading westwards from Australia to Indian Ocean.
Mystery of Antarctica's cold seawater explained by ocean currents
Water around Antarctica has retained same temperature while rest of world has warmed up.
Great Barrier Reef: Alarm bells ring over rising coral deaths due to bleaching
Some 35% of corals in northern and central sections of Reef killed by mass bleaching, say scientists.
Climate change: Stonehenge, Statue of Liberty and Easter Island heads all at risk warns Unesco
Climate change can cause rapid and permanent damage to many cultural and natural wonders, says report.
Traces of ancient Ice Age discovered at Mars' North Pole
Radar data of Mars suggest an Ice Age could have taken place on the planet.
2016 set to be hottest year since 1880 after 12 consecutive record-breaking months
'I'm in shock, I wish it weren't so,' says scientist.
Burning all of Earth's fossil fuels would lead to a 17C rise in Arctic temperatures by 2300
Releasing five trillion tonnes of CO2 emissions would result in global warming 'more profound' than estimated.
Sclerocormus parviceps: Fast evolution of strange reptile sheds light on mass extinction events
Reptile fossil makes rapid evolution to adapt to post Permian-Triassic mass extinction era.