The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

Manatees were celebrated across the country on Wednesday. The marine mammals are threatened by increasing climate change impacts

The reason for the switch remains unclear as climate change continues to increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather events

People are urged to gather food, water, medicine and torches to prepare for potential crises

Jim Skea insists the IPCC, the UN climate panel he chairs, is not in crisis and remains relevant despite criticism it is too slow in publishing its landmark scientific reports on climate change.

Drought relief has come at a price in Spain, as flash floods forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes, closed schools and highways and swept cars away

Commentators have branded last night’s federal budget as an attempt to win over typical Australian voters concerned about the cost of living, ahead of what is expected to be a tightly fought federal election.

Australia is grappling with a housing crisis – and climate change is only making things worse. We speak to researchers who are making sense of these challenges and working towards solutions.

Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth’s surface as powerfully as floods and storms. These animals effectively act as landscape engineers, reorganising soils and sediments. Yet their combined global impact has never been explored, until now.

Wealthy nations fuelled their industrial growth and urbanisation by burning fossil fuels. This was the biggest cause of climate change, which now affects every country in the world, even developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa which are responsible for less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Wealthy nations owe a…

By the standards of pre-election budgets, this one is surprisingly modest. There are only a handful of new revenue and spending initiatives. The Budget Paper 2 book, which contains new measures, is a slim document.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a petition filed by young climate activists who argued that the federal government's role in climate change violated their constitutional rights