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World Environment Day 2015: 10 easy ways to reduce your carbon footprint and curb climate change
World Environment Day is observed on Friday 5 June to raise awareness of environmental problems.
Ikea announces €1bn spend on tackling climate change
The company is investing €600m in renewable energy sources and €400m in humanitarian help
The 10 most polluted cities in the world
More than 200 million people worldwide suffer the effects of air pollution
Seal 'tweets' provide ocean data from Polar Regions on climate change
Tweeting seals relay compressed information to scientists for international database.
Global warming: Greenhouse gas induced warming takes only weeks to be felt
The warming by carbon emissions exceeds combustion heat in a few weeks.
Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer Of The Year 2015: Shortlisted images [Photo report]
Photos illustrate the link between environmental and social issues such as climate change and poverty.
Global warming leads to hybrids driving species loss
The hybrid species found to lead to less genetic diversity.
Global warming: National targets on track to cut 75% global emissions
These targets are still not enough to limit warming to two deg C.
Australia: Koalas to be listed vulnerable across Queensland as numbers plummet
Once found in large numbers, habitat loss is pushing the species to a vulnerable situation.
Typhoons and hurricanes can get 14% stronger even with moderate global warming
The intensity of storms could further increase under increased emissions.
Australia: 'Suicide sex' marsupials face extinction
Two new species of antechinus discovered that have sex until they die.
Coming soon - drier days in UK, drought in Africa and sea level rise along US coast
Decadal scale change is being caused by Atlantic ocean currents moving heat from tropics to the north.
Everest glaciers 'will disappear by 2100' if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise
Glaciers on Mount Everest will experience sustained ice loss over next 85 years.
India: Over 1,000 people dead in heatwave but monsoons expected to cool conditions
The conditions are expected to last for a day or two.
India: As heat wave claims hundreds of lives scientists predict more such events
Rising global temperatures and El nino effect could worsen the situation.
Texas: Mass evacuations take place as flooding threatens Wichita Falls
Firefighter dies in Oklahoma attempting a water rescue operation as rivers rise several metres
Global warming: Deeper cuts can limit temperature rise to 1.5 deg says analysis
The study comes as a contrast to many others that have warned that it may be too late already.
Antarctica: 'Stable' inland region lost 350,000 Empire State Buildings worth of ice since 2009
Rate of water loss has been 55 trillion litres of water every year.
Nature's rhapsody in blue: Tasmania shoreline glitters with magical bioluminescent plankton [Photos]
River in southern Tasmania glows in the dark as billions of bioluminescent plankton arrive.
Rising temperatures can release 550 billion tonnes of carbon held in peat moss
The sudden release could prove disastrous for the climate.
Bin Laden's bookshelf: Terror mastermind worried about global warming
Bin Laden called for sustainable water systems and wanted relief network for climate victims
Global warming hiatus: Indian Ocean left holding 70% heat absorbed by Pacific thanks to the easterlies
The transfer of heat across the oceans was caused by increased easterly trade winds.
Weather chaos in US midwest as 19 tornadoes destroy homes and cause power cuts
19 tornadoes hit states from Texas to Minnesota causing flooding and a 40-foot deep sinkhole.
Global warming established with detection of atmosphere hotspot
The strong warming in the upper atmosphere removes doubts on emissions induced warming.
Massive Antarctic ice shelf will be gone by end of decade, alarming scientists
Melting in climate change has been 'relentless,' says researcher
Nasa finds Antarctic ice shelf just a few years from disintegration
Fears climate change and melting ice could lead to rising seas.
Endangered Species Day 2015: 10 species dying out in the wild
Endangered Species Day, observed on Friday 15 May 2015, highlights need for wildlife conservation.
El Nino 2015: Britain faces a cold, wet summer and a freezing winter
Weather chaos predicted round world due to 'El Niño effect' - not that you'll notice a difference in the UK
Expo Milano 2015: Inside the supermarket of the future
The Expo 2015 Future Food District shows how new technologies can be applied at each step of the food chain.
Global warming: Average carbon emissions breach 400 ppm mark to enter 'danger zone'
UN had expected 400 ppm mark to be reached much later this year or next.

