Poorest Nations Say Yes to Emissions Cuts

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Mar 30, 2013 The Group of Least Developed Countries, a key partner in the long-running United Nations climate talks, is willing to agree to the industrialized world's core demand on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Drier Climate Will Spread Deadly Intestinal Illnesses

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Mar 28, 2013 Researchers say they have found a clear link between climate change and the spread of diarrhea and similar diseases in one African country. But the nature of the link may be unexpected. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Climate Change: One More Problem for Pakistan

By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network Mar 26, 2013 Drone attacks, deadly bombings, tensions with neighboring India, power and food shortages and political instability ahead of May elections all threaten Pakistan, and soon climate change will too. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Volcano ‘Did Little to Lower CO2′

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Mar 22, 2013 Supporters of geo-engineering are disappointed to learn that an Icelandic volcano that threw iron into the nearby ocean did little to reduce long-term atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Katrina ‘Could Soon Happen Every Other Year’

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Mar 19, 2013 With temperatures predicted to rise by at least 2°C this century, storms like the one that drowned New Orleans in 2005 could occur in the Atlantic once every two years. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Submarine Methane Raises the Stakes

By Paul Brown, Climate News Network Mar 16, 2013 Japan has succeeded in pioneering the exploitation of vast reserves of undersea methane. It could be good news for a resource-hungry country and bad for an overheating planet. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Warming ‘May Harm Rainforests Less’

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Mar 15, 2013 The world’s rainforests may be able to weather the assaults of climate change more robustly than scientists had earlier thought, says a new study. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Carbon’s Climb Speeds Up

By Paul Brown, Climate News Network Mar 14, 2013 News that carbon dioxide levels rose sharply last year confirm that climate change will soon be impossible to stop. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Greening Tundra Shows Arctic Heat

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Mar 13, 2013 Arctic vegetation is now growing nearly 500 miles closer to the North Pole than it was a few decades ago, indicating that the region is warming fast. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Cool Heads Needed by Geo-Engineers

By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network Mar 12, 2013 Even if humanity can solve the technical riddles involved in trying to geo-engineer the planet away from dangerous climate change, many legal and ethical questions will still need answers. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Why We Should Be Cooling, Not Warming

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Mar 9, 2013 The Earth would be in a cooling phase if it were not for the effect of rising quantities of atmospheric carbon dioxide, say scientists who have reconstructed the climate of the last 11,000 years. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Canadian Glaciers Are Melting Fast

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Mar 8, 2013 Many of the Canadian far north’s glaciers are likely to melt by the end of the century, making significant and irreversible sea-level rise inevitable. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )