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Dealing in doubt: how big oil funds climate denial

Attacks on climate science have been going on for 25 years. Greenpeace’s Cindy Baxter explains why they’re heating up ahead of the IPCC AR5 report

Researchers find that flights covering an area near the Solomon Islands produce most ozone, as EU limits its ETS to own airspace

Scientists say rising sea levels and global warming increased magnitude and likelihood of 2012 extreme weather, including Hurricane Sandy

Scientists think they know why some European glaciers started to shrink decades before climate change had begun to raise temperatures.

Study forming part of forthcoming IPCC climate science report says Brazil’s farmers need to work out plan to adapt to effects of climate change

Scientists say biggest driver for fires in USA is temperatures, indicating country will have to face more wildfires in future

Humanity has ‘ignored and disregarded’ debts to nature says climate science chief in withering attack on governments

Organisms which can threaten food and other crops are moving towards the poles to escape increasing heat where they live at present

The world’s marine species are liable to face 100,000 years of change, scientists say, unless greenhouse gas emissions are radically reduced

Multinational team will measure a range of parameters of the sea ice, icebergs and how they interact with their ship

Damage from extreme weather to world’s biggest coastal cities expected to reach 0.7% of global GDP in 40 years

Dutch scientists have thought up a new use for all the carbon dioxide that pours from the chimneys of fossil fuel-burning power stations

Draft of IPCC AR5 report seen by Reuters says experts are sure of global warming causes

The 6-10% leakage rate of methane at a US gas field means that burning natural gas could warm the planet more than coal

Different models offer conflicting predictions on future crop yields, confusing scientists and the public alike

Existing climate change means extreme heat waves will rise by four times by 2040, whether or not emissions are cut

Greenland’s icesheet is melting, at the surface and at its base, but this may be the normal warmth of an active rocky planet

New research suggests soot and methane have less of an impact on global temperatures than previously thought

Water levels in Ganges and Indus rivers unlikely to drop over next 100 years says new study of Himalayan and the Tibetan plateau glaciers

The world’s coral reefs are under threat. Some scientists say doses of cloud brightening could provide a solution to the problem.