The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

How climate change is turning summer into "the danger season."

It’s a nutritional food source, an alternative to plastic, has medicinal properties and can help limit global warming: Marine algae might just be the next weapon in the fight against climate change.

Given predictions around climate change making severe weather a more frequent fact of life, all levels of government must take note of these and other costs that have not traditionally been taken into the fiscal accounting.

Traditional Owners in Australia are the creators of millennia worth of traditional ecological knowledge – an understanding of how to live amid changing environmental conditions. Seasonal calendars are one of the forms of this knowledge best known by non-Indigenous Australians. But as the climate changes, these calendars are being disrupted.

Oceans and coastlines have been subjected to human use for centuries. But the effects of human activity on the oceans are now more extensive, with the resulting changes happening more rapidly than ever before.

In a report published in journal Nature Food, scientists say that rising temperatures could cut tomato production by 6% by 2050 but by 50% between 2050 and 2100

"Thinking strategically has become more vital than ever because of the urgency of tackling climate change"

Commonwealth countries will vote on a new Secretary-General at CHOGM later this month, and Tuvalu is counting on Australia to support its candidate.

Edinburgh palaeontologist says smaller mammals are better able to cope with increased temperatures