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The Australian government has defended its environmental credentials, arguing that the country had reduced emissions faster than many comparable nations.

If there was ever doubt NZ had gone up a blind climate alley by moving towards large plantings of pine trees, the latest international scientists' report has firmly laid that to rest

There is only a small window in which to mitigate the worst effects, says Alice Bell of the climate change charity Possible

The latest UN report on the potential impacts of climate change gives a grim verdict, with some effects now deemed unavoidable. But there are also lessons on disasters and violent conflicts which could help save lives and create safer societies regardless of human-caused climate change.

A United Nations report is painting a dire picture of the Great Barrier Reef's future

It says Lucknow and Patna are among cities predicted to reach wet-bulb temperatures of 35°C if emissions continued to rise

A panel of global climate experts finds that human health and natural ecosystems are under threat and we have little time to adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Climate change is already disrupting billions of lives and humanity is not doing enough to limit the suffering, the United Nations climate science panel warned in a major report on Monday.

Climate change will put people’s lives and Earth’s ecosystems at increasing risk of catastrophe if nations fail to quickly reduce emissions of planet-heating gases, according to a new United Nations report that urges humankind to scale up efforts to adapt and protect the most vulnerable.