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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.
International Snow Leopard Day 2015: Stunning never-before-seen footage of endangered creatures [Photos and video]
WWF report finds more than a third of snow leopard habitats are at risk from climate change.
US political grandees say leaders must 'think past tomorrow' ahead of Paris climate conference
Some 48 high ranking former members of the US government took out a full-page ad warning about climate change.
Climate change winners and losers: Which animal species will thrive? [Photos]
Climate change can be good for some species but which will be the winners?
World Solar Challenge 2015: Solar-powered electric cars race across Australia [Photos]
Under blue skies and unrelenting sunshine, solar-powered cars are racing across Australia.
Oslo is first capital city to divest from fossil fuels and plans to halve emissions by 2020
The city's council joins in calls for large funds to divest from fossil fuels.
UN Climate Change Conference: Future of the Earth hinges on COP21 in Paris
Paris could be the last chance for a global response to rising temperatures.
Climate change: See Europe's biggest glacier, the Great Aletsch, now, before it's too late [Photos]
Reuters photographer Denis Balibouse photographs the Aletsch Glacier in the Swiss Alps.
Scientific analysis shows The Day After Tomorrow disaster could happen
Although the world probably wouldn't be affected as badly as in the Jake Gyllenhaal movie.
California: El Nino to bring heavy rain similar to record-breaking wet winter that killed many
Strengthening El Niño likely to bring unusually wet winter to the West Coast.
Horn of Africa will get drier with global warming further destabilising region
Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti expected to get even drier with rising carbon emissions.
IMF head Christine Lagarde says time is right for carbon emission tax to tackle pollution
At the event the female IMF boss also said that she would be willing to serve for a second term.