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Amber Rudd: Renewables rethink 'if, and only if' costs come down
Energy Secretary says renewables will only be supported if conditions of cost reduction are met.
Retreating glaciers caused Adelie penguin population explosion over last 14,000 years
Since the last ice age, Adelie penguin populations have seen a 135-fold increase.
Pakistani farmer wins lawsuit against government over climate policy
The court ordered a commission to examine the policy and do the needful.
G20 climate statement found to be weak on commitments as Paris readies for summit
Even as Paris mourns the death of 129 people in the recent terror attacks, the climate summit would be held on schedule.
COP21: What do activists have in store for delegates in Le Bourget?
Disobedience, blockades and discussions to mark COP21.
Collapsing Zachariae Isstrom glacier in Greenland could raise sea levels by half a metre
Scientists studied the glacier's continued collapse in the last 40 years.
Climate change helped Ancient China's Southern Song Dynasty keep Genghis Khan and Mongol Empire at bay
A new study has found the warm climate of the time helped the economy boom.
Climate change: UK is only G7 country increasing fossil fuel subsidies while cutting renewables
An ODI study highlighted the G20 had 'broken its promise' to end fossil fuel subsidies.
Climate change study: Sharks to become smaller and inefficient hunters in warm acidic oceans
Adelaide researchers find climate change will destroy sharks' ability to hunt.
China: New coal plants mushrooming despite energy glut
Greenpeace calls the investments an economic waste and lost chance to spur renewables.
UK energy rating downgraded by World Energy Council
The annual Trilemma Index downgraded the UK's rating to AAB.
US textbooks portray climate change as opinion
Ambiguous language and misrepresentation of facts were found in four textbooks.
IEA report: Developing countries to drive 33% rise in energy demand by 2040
Emissions will drop but not enough to prevent a 2.7 °C rise in global temperature by 2100.
UK will miss renewable targets by 25% and legal action could be an outcome
Missing targets would put the UK at risk of large fines from the European Court of Justice
Global warming is good news for Champagne lovers
The 1.2C temperature increase in the region over the past 30 years has reduced frost damage.
President Barack Obama finally joins Facebook with first posting on dangers of climate change
Facebook welcomes President Obama as he opens own personal page with climate warning video.
Met Office data shows 1C rise in global temperature for the first time
The global temperature is set to be higher than 1C over pre-industrial levels for the first time
CO2 levels hit record high for 30th year in a row
Video sees WMO's Michel Jarraud reporting on alarming statistics of continuing pollution.
COP21: UK coastal communities already at risk of encroaching sea levels
'In London, the Thames barrier was raised... in other places you were evacuated from your house.'
Climate change to push over 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030
Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the poorest regions in the world, will be hit the hardest due to climate change.
Global warming: UN says gas emissions pledges are not enough [Video]
Plans by 150 countries insufficient to limit a rise in global temperatures.
ExxonMobil under probe by New York Attorney General for misleading comments on climate change
The company was issued a subpoena by NY Attorney General Eric Schniederman.
UN climate meet: Submitted plans commit world to more than 3C rise says CSE
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions state national plans for emission reductions until 2030.
Earthquakes, superstorms ... and other little-known perils of climate change
Climate change will probably lead to a far more hazardous world.
US election 2016: President Obama says Republicans 'occupy a different reality'
Obama made fun of his Republican rivals at a Democratic fundraiser on New York's Broadway.
West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse will result in 3m sea level rise and is 'likely starting right now'
Model suggests West Antarctic Ice Sheet might have started an irreversible period of collapse.
Nasa study shows Antarctica sheet gaining ice
Most recent studies have spoken of ice loss from melting glaciers.
COP21: How climate change is destroying the Sami way of life in Scandinavia
Temperatures are changing their natural environment quicker than the Sami can adapt.
Morocco to become renewable energy superpower with world's biggest concentrated solar plant
Renewable sources will provide half of Morocco's energy by 2020.
Climate change to turn Persian Gulf into another Danakil Desert – the cruellest place on Earth
Temperatures in Persian Gulf to exceed threshold of human tolerance by the end of the century.