Chancellor’s plan to scrap climate change targets could cost every household £8,000

Japan dramatically scales back long-term commitments to reduce carbon emissions as Australia moves to repeal its carbon tax

More than 800 activists from NGOs such as Greenpeace and Oxfam as well as trade unions and social movements have staged a mass walkout of the UN climate talks in Warsaw in protest of the lack of action at the conference.

Otherwise the conflicting views go on as strongly as ever

Failure to record temperature rises in the Arctic explains apparent ‘flatlining’, study finds, undermining sceptics’ argument that climate change has stopped

Critics like to cite research showing the rise in the world’s average surface temperatures has slowed down since 1998. But is it true?

It was the evidence that climate change sceptics loved to cite. While the scientific community’s warnings about global warming had become ever more convincing, the critics pointed time and again to graphs showing the rise in the world’s average surface temperatures has slowed down since 1998 – a fact extensively interpreted by many vocal opponents as a fundamental failure in the basic science of climate change.

Philippines envoy breaks down and vows to stop eating until 'meaningful outcome is in sight'

A huge swathe of eastern England, most of Denmark, the entire eastern seaboard of the United States, Bangladesh and a huge chunk of China would be lost beneath the sea if all the world’s ice melted, according to maps produced by National Geographic magazine.

Former Australian Prime Minister says climate change claims are exaggerated

Atmospheric volumes of greenhouse gases blamed for climate change hit a new record in 2012, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Wednesday.

'It's shocking to see how cynical a politician can be,' says leading environmentalist of PM's attitude to climate change

Power generators' switch from gas to coal sees 2.4-per-cent jump in 'carbon intensity'

Summer downpours across northern  Europe linked to variations of jet stream winds caused by loss of sea ice

Scientists show shifts from dry to wet and back in East Africa's Rift Valley caused the development of the human brain