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Britain experienced its third warmest spring

Climate change: Global temperatures in May hit an all-time record high

Latest data exposes the myth that global warming has 'stopped'

A bulldozer operates atop a coal mound at the CCI Energy Slones Branch Terminal in Shelbiana, Kentucky

Climate change will ‘cost world far more than estimated’

Lord Stern says current models do not adequately reflect the science and the impact on global economies  

Barack Obama has compared action to cut carbon emissions to the space race

Obama challenges global warming sceptics

US President Barack Obama has criticised climate change deniers in Congress while challenging young people to change the “status quo” on global warming, during an address on Saturday to the graduating class of the University of California, Irvine.

Apocalypse now? a scene from the film of Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'

Why the cultural response to global warming makes for a heated debate

The Met Office thinks that we need to communicate climate change in a more creative way. But can writers and artists inspire action, asks Dr Sam Solnick
What will warmer winters do to Wordsworth’s golden daffodils?

Unleash metrics on the climate change sceptics! Met Office chief wants scientists to turn to poetry to promote research

William Wordsworth found inspiration for his poetry in his environment, not least the “golden daffodils” he saw “beside the lake”.

The sheer number of water butts spread across the UK creates a network of easily accessible prime mosquito larvae habitat

Britain faces malaria risk as climate change sees mosquitoes thriving in garden water butts

Britain faces an increased threat from “tropical” diseases like malaria and West Nile virus – because of the increasing popularity of garden water butts.

Water surrounds flooded propeties in the village of Moorland on the Somerset Levels near Bridgwater

Tories’ scepticism about climate change melts after winter floods – in their constituencies

John Gummer tells Tom Bawden a thawing in attitudes is down to recent bad weather and a tide of scientific evidence

Climate change will hit price of cereal and household basics next, report claims

Oxfam report found Kellogg and Nestlé are among the world’s ‘big ten’ companies who emit more greenhouses gases than Nordic countries combined

East Antarctic outlet glacier, Wilkes Land. The advance and retreat of this glacier was measured in the study and linked to variations in climate

Antarctic ice sheet disappearing at twice the rate predicted

Almost 160 billion tonnes of ice is being lost every year in 'dramatic changes'

Terrain spotting: Iain Cameron contemplates long lying snow at Aonach Beag

Summer, the perfect time for snow-spotting...

As summer arrives and most of us are seeking out a place in the sun, dedicated snow-spotters begin looking for their kind of treasure: the patches that never melt
Kiribati is home to a population of 100,000
Lord Lawson, founder of a controversial think-tank

Nigel Lawson's climate-change denial charity 'intimidated' environmental expert

Academic claims that the former chancellor's foundation complained to his employer
The dry bed of the Stevens Creek Reservoir in Cupertino, California cracks in the summer heat. The decade from 2001 to 2012 was the warmest on record in the United States

America’s wake-up call: ‘Climate change, once seen as issue for the future, has moved into present’

Heat waves, wildfires, torrential rains – the Obama administration warns the people of the United States, particularly those on the right, that climate change is already here, and it’s almost too late to act

Canary Island first to be powered by just wind and water

Wind turbines and an extinct volcano help tiny Spanish island to pioneering energy feat.

Fish could be rendered more vulnerable to predators by ocean acidification caused by carbon emissions, a report has found

Climate change: Davey calls for new deal on emissions as UN warns of a catastrophe

The Government has called for a new ambitious deal on global emissions in wake of a landmark United Nations report that demands bold action to avert a climate change catastrophe.

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As I walked out one Midsummer morning

A century ago saw the birth of Laurie Lee, whose most famous work, Cider with Rosie, immortalised the countryside of his youth
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Should books have happy endings?

Doom-laden tales such as 'The Bunker Diary' may impress prize juries, but books that offer hope are the ones that children remember with love [spoiler alert]
BP Portrait Award: Chance meeting with homeless man leads to £30,000 portrait prize

Chance meeting with homeless man leads to £30,000 portrait prize

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Are the robots taking over?

In a hit Swedish TV drama, soon to be remade in English, lifelike robots do the all the dirty work. Pure science fiction – or a glimpse of the future?
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Should the Government retrain retired people as teachers?

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Smash like Murray: 10 best tennis rackets

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Nick Bollettieri's Wimbledon Files

Stepanek is in good form – he beat Murray at Queen's – and will not lose his nerve but there's simply no way past Djokovic
Revealed: Secret HQ for the UK's gun-running naval operation which armed the slave-owning South and prolonged the American Civil War

Secrets of UK gun-running which lengthened American civil war by two years

Secret HQ for the naval operation which armed the slave-owning South
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Revealed: The secret artist behind so much Glastonbury imagery

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Monty Python: The last laugh?

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