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Earth’s oceans have economic value of $24 trillion, says WWF
NEWS: Green campaign group warns valuable natural resource is threatened by pollution, overfishing and climate change
Ocean acidification triggered mass extinctions 252 million years ago
NEWS: The biggest extinction ever known on Earth resulted from oceans turned acid by CO2, the main gas driving human-caused climate change today
African ministers back 1.5C warming goal for Paris summit
NEWS: Climate vulnerable nations call for ambitious carbon cuts and more emphasis on adaptation in proposed 2015 deal
Ocean acidification attack on algae damaging marine ecosystems
NEWS: Development of group of alga may be stunted as oceans absorb more carbon dioxide, with widespread effects for marine life, say scientists
Can global warming be limited to 1.5C?
COMMENT: Scientists at Climate Analytics discuss the odds of avoiding temperature rises above 1.5C and 2C
“This is a matter of our race’s existence and extinction”
COMMENT: A letter from a schoolgirl on the sinking Seychelles to the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon
Watered down UN climate science report is still important
ANALYSIS: Finding that world must reach zero emissions this century is significant, even though key phrase was omitted from final version
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
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
Backtracking from 2C goal abandons island states to the waves
ANALYSIS: Negotiators are already distancing themselves from the 2C goal, but it is too important to throw away
How Hurricane Sandy spurred Rhode Island climate action
INTERVIEW: While debate rages across the US over President Obama’s carbon cuts, one small east-coast state has taken a lead
Great Barrier Reef may withstand warming seas
NEWS: Australian reef could be more resilient to warming than thought, historical data shows
Hawaii passes climate change adaptation law
NEWS: New law creates climate council and seeks to protect islands from threat of rising sea levels
Island states invoke IPCC report at climate negotiations
NEWS: Low lying island countries at risk from sea level rise are pushing for tougher climate action ahead of Bonn talks
Cutting CO2 emissions saves money, says UN climate panel
ANALYSIS: Costs of global transition to clean energy sources smaller than expected, and could offer huge benefits
UN climate panel answers 11 key questions on its latest report
BLOG: Scientists working on the IPCC’s latest study answer questions on adaptation, positives from warming and timeframes
Do governments need clearer climate messages from the IPCC?
ANALYSIS: UN climate panel only reports ‘facts’, but is it time to make clearer the implications for policy?
How much worse is a 4 degrees world?
ANALYSIS: risks linked to warming above 2C likely to be unpredictable and dangerous, says IPCC report
Climate change is already here, poses serious threat – IPCC
NEWS: Costs of global warming outweigh benefits say UN scientists, with damages likely to rise without emission cuts
UN science panel releases climate impacts report – as it happened
Latest news, analysis, tweets and commentary from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report on the impacts of global warming