Climate science
Halloween could be UK’s hottest ever
NEWS: October 31 will be frightfully hot, according to the UK’s Met Office
Climate marathon: IPCC nears finish line for seminal report
NEWS: Scientists and officials will need to sift through over 200 comments, ranging from grammatical errors to strategic concerns
Climate change could create more Boko Haram extremists – study
NEWS: Drought, famine and crop failures could destabilise 32 countries in Africa and Asia, warn risk analysts
UK invests £97m in weather and climate supercomputer
NEWS: The Met Office says the system, 13 times more powerful than its existing capacity, will bring £2 billion of benefits
Giant tower to monitor climate change in the Amazon
NEWS: Taller than the Eiffel Tower, the observatory will capture vital data on how climate change is impacting the rainforest
US and UK call on UN science panel to stress climate risks
NEWS: Comments on draft IPCC ‘synthesis’ report show governments want to make clear the dangers of global warming
Sea level could rise ‘height of man’ by 2100
NEWS: Scientists say sea level unlikely to rise beyond 1.8m by end of century – a rise still disastrous for tropical fishermen
Sweden rated as ‘world’s greenest country’
NEWS: New report ranks countries’ green performance, next to how well they’re perceived to be performing
Earth on course for hottest year since 1880
NEWS: Global heat records fall as month by month data from US federal agency indicates world is warming
Arctic ice melt sends Alaskan temperatures soaring by 7C
NEWS: Scientists in the northern Alaska outpost of Barrow have linked 7C temperature rise to the decline in Arctic sea ice
Sahel faces food crisis as population surges towards one billion
NEWS: Human numbers are rising in one of the world’s driest regions, but harvest levels could suffer from climate change
Biodiversity: the ‘stepchild’ of international talks
INTERVIEW: With little hard cash on the table at UN summit, biodiversity champions seek to link up with mainstream agendas
Natural gas boom will not slow climate change – study
NEWS: Research from five countries shows a gas glut will make no difference to global warming
Concern mounts in Marshall Islands as high tides swamp capital
NEWS: Majuro counts cost of latest flooding as 30 ‘Pacific Warriors’ set off for Australia in canoes to highlight concerns
Climate adaptation brings men back to women-only village
NEWS: How tackling water scarcity in Burkina Faso brought men, a beer brewing business and a donkey to village of women
Washington DC could face 300 floods a year by 2045 – study
NEWS: East Coast states need to plan for increased frequency of tidal flooding caused by rising sea levels, say scientists
Ocean acidification causes US$1trn of damage a year – study
NEWS: Some 400 million people depend on threatened coral reefs for their livelihoods, British scientists warn at UN meeting
Extra heat found in oceans explains global warming ‘pause’
NEWS: Much more heat is being absorbed by the world’s oceans in some regions than previously thought, find scientists
UN: Expand marine protection zones to cope with climate threat
NEWS: Warming waters and acidification are steadily degrading the planet’s oceans, says new study
China emissions rising on high-carbon economic growth
NEWS: Economic success story has been driven by investment in high carbon sectors such as cement and steel, find researchers