Climate Change

In a move to oppose the controversial tax levied on carbon emissions by the European Union (EU), the Chinese Government has announced it has barred its airlines from complying with the guidelines.

Scientists from the University of Western Australia have discovered that seagrass is the oldest living thing on the Earth.

Vicious winter weather sweeps through Europe, with more to come, say Met men.

European farmers count cost of losing 1.2. million tonnes of wheat as ozone-damaging emissions cross Atlantic.

Researchers from the University of Sheffield in the UK have developed a new method, using microbubble technology, to double algae cultivation for biofuel.

Drop in region's fuel supply could hit the Olympics.

Scientists believe that the contourite sediments could contain a solid record of climate change and tectonic activity over the past 5.3 million years.

NASA's Goddard Institute for the Space Studies in New York has found that 2011 was the ninth warmest year since 1880.

UK scientists believe oxidising molecule could clean up atmsopheric pollutants and help fight global warming.

Scientists are to announce mankind is close to catastrophic destruction with the movement of the Doomsday clock.

Cutting back on meat can have positive results and may seem attractive option in bloated post-Christmas lull.

Scientists have developed a way to detect vulnerable animal populations likely to suffer from an onslaught of climate change-fuelled natural disasters.

Following marathon talks, the UN climate change conference agreed on a deal to legally bind the world's largest carbon emitters.

Last week the BBC released shocking pictures of Polar bear cannibalism, showing an adult bear dragging the body of a cub it had just killed along the Arctic ice before eating it.

As the U.N. climate change conference draws to a close, take a look at some pictures that sum up the two-week summit in Durban.

As the UN climate change conference in Durban draws to a close, few positive results have been announced, as many environmentalists predicted. Is it too late?

A repeat of last December's "big freeze" is almost ruled out now.

With two days left at the climate change conference, a deal for the Green Climate Fund are hoped to be finalised.

As the climate change conference in Durban nears the end, UK environment experts asses what has been achieved at the current round of talks.

China backs the EU's plans to continue the Kyoto Protocol in the fight against global warming, but not without conditions.

As we reach the end of the second decade of the 21st century, it seems that there are a growing number of species that will struggle to make it to the third.

More than 6,000 protestors marched the streets of Durban to demand faster action on climate change.

Activists warn the U.S. will derail progress at the Climate Change talks in Durban, South Africa, by blocking moves toward a climate change fund.

A host of celebrities are expected to attend the U.N. climate change conference in Durban, South Africa.

Dame Vivienne Westwood has pledged £1 million to help tackle climate change.

Qatar will host the Conference of the Parties (COP18) climate change talks in 2012.

The bank ends sponsorship of Climate Week event following claims of “corporate greenwash”.

Firm action is required at the Durban climate talks to prevent increasing global hunger and poverty, Oxfam warns.

The revelations are a blow to David Cameron's claim to be the "greenest government ever."

The ongoing disagreements are likely to a create deadlock during the summit.