COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:  07:00 30 November 2009  | 38 comments

New Scientist asked leading scientists, politicians and business people to tell us if the imminent climate change talks can deliver

18:44 25 November 2009  | 37 comments

The US president has given a major boost to next month's Copenhagen talks by offering firm targets for cuts in US greenhouse gas emissions

EDITORIAL:  18:01 25 November 2009  | 22 comments

The release of hundreds of personal emails sent by climate researchers has proved extremely embarrassing

UPFRONT:  14:45 25 November 2009  | 42 comments

Cutting back on the amount of animal produce we consume would help us meet our emissions reduction targets, and make us healthier into the bargain

UPFRONT:  13:07 25 November 2009  | 54 comments

The Copenhagen Diagnosis argues that the environment is in a worse state than predicted as recently as 2007 and calls for drastic action

THIS WEEK:  18:01 24 November 2009  | 461 comments

Climate scientists are reeling from the discovery that someone has hacked into the email archive of one of their most prestigious research centres

17:27 24 November 2009  | 21 comments

The East Antarctica ice sheet, which was thought to be stable, is losing billions of tonnes of ice a year – climate change may be the culprit

THIS WEEK:  20:00 23 November 2009  | 44 comments

Africa is set to experience a surge in civil wars, causing nearly 400,000 additional battle deaths by 2030 – all as a direct result of rising temperatures, a study suggests

ESSAY:  14:10 23 November 2009  | 87 comments

Climate change is transforming the Arctic so fast that many species could be gone within our lifetimes. But the important thing is to put human self-interest first, says Alun Anderson

IN BRIEF:  11:00 21 November 2009  | 74 comments

The ice cap lost 1500 cubic kilometres of ice between 2000 and 2008, and the loss is speeding up

UPFRONT:  13:48 17 November 2009  | 34 comments

The organisers of the Copenhagen climate conference have conceded that it cannot deliver a legally binding deal. What is left for it to offer?

20:00 16 November 2009  | 21 comments

Rising temperatures are boosting the growth of the oldest trees on Earth, but the adolescent growth spurt may – or may not – benefit the climate, say scientists

18:00 15 November 2009  | 28 comments

2.5 billion years ago, the sun was so faint, the oceans should have been ice. They weren't, and now a modelling study suggests the greenhouse effect, and nitrogen explain why

INTERVIEW:  10:00 14 November 2009  | 82 comments

Ray Mears is Mr Bushcraft. He wants people to be confident about surviving in the wild, but reckons most of us won't make it through a global climate crisis

UPFRONT:  13:51 13 November 2009  | 27 comments

Planting forests in the tropics could be a waste of time and money, compared with planting them at high latitudes