Bjørn Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Centre was paid $640,000 before its Australian program was dropped. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

Exclusive: Revealed under freedom of information, cost came before Copenhagen Consensus Centre’s controversial $4m Australian program dropped...

About nine months ago I was sitting in a conference room on the outskirts of Paris, watching more than two hundred countries vote to approve an international agreement to tackle climate change...

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On September 9, the Obama administration revoked authorization for construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) on federally controlled lands and asked the pipeline's owners, led by Energy Transfer Partners, to voluntarily halt construction on adjacent areas at the center of protests by Native Americans and supporters...

Firefighters build a fire line during the Blue Cut Fire in California's San Bernardino County in August. Patrick T. Fallon/Zuma

With a catastrophic season of wildfires, megafloods and major hurricanes, the climate-change siege is fully upon us...

Uber employees stand by self-driving Ford Fusion hybrid cars while test driving the vehicles, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Jared Wickerham)

On Thursday the Rocky Mountain Institute — an energy-focused think tank known for its boldness in predicting technological change — released a truly sweeping report on the future of vehicles...

Mountains of coal; wind turbine. CREDIT: FLICKR USER WACKELIJMROOSTER

Revisit the history before the Clean Power Plan goes to court...

A burning building is seen after warplanes belonging to the Assad Regime carried out airstrikes at opposition controlled areas in Idlib, Syria on Sept. 12, 2016. Image: Bhjat Najar/Anadolu Agency/(Getty Images)

The U.S. intelligence community on Wednesday released a new report finding that global warming is already acting as a destabilizing force worldwide, with more serious ramifications to come in the next two decades...

File photo of a view of the lake formed by meltwater from the Pastoruri glacier, as seen from atop the glacier in Huaraz, September 19, 2013. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo

OXFORD, England (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The planet could pass a key target on world temperature rise in about a decade, prompting accelerating loss of glaciers, steep declines in water availability, worsening land conflicts and deepening poverty, scientists said this week.

A farmer plants potatoes in his field in Tilloy lez Cambrai, France. (Reuters/Pascal Rossignol)

It might sound strange, but scientists believe the ground we walk on can be a huge weapon in the fight against climate change...

If you are like me, you must be astounded at the lack of attention and action given to the enormous threat of global warming that could lead to the extinction of so much life on Earth...including our own...

The car rental company Enterprise has parted ways with the rightwing lobby group Alec. Photograph: John Bazemore/AP

Company follows lead of Ford and others in exiting rightwing American Legislative Exchange Council after consumers condemned membership...

John and Linda Rumney on the Great Barrier Reef Photograph: John Rumney

Months after the worst coral bleaching event to hit the reef, Australian conservationist Tim Flannery returns to a tourism hot spot 50km north-east of Port Douglas to witness the destruction wrought by a warming planet...

A photo of Zachariae Isbrae in northeast Greenland. (Image credit: Anders A Bjork, courtesy of The Ohio State University)

Rapidly melting Greenland may be shedding its ice even faster than anyone suspected, new research suggests. A study just out in the journal Science Advances finds that previous studies may have underestimated the current rate of mass loss on the Greenland ice sheet by about 20 billion tons per year... 

Attention, millennials…

Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president, takes what he calls the "long-term view" of climate change. "In billions of years," he said in 2011, "the sun is going to actually grow and encompass the Earth, right? So global warming is in our future."

A Uighur man drives his donkey and cart past a well to draw water from a karez in Turpan, China. The wells provide access to the karez channels and allow for maintenance and ventilation. After centuries of nourishing the people of the parched region, the karez are drying up. (ADAM DEAN/NYT)

Although scientists say global warming has shrunk the glaciers that feed the elaborate irrigation system, the more immediate threat is the soaring demand for water from the petroleum drillers and industrial-scale farmers who are sucking the Turpan Basin dry...

The EMS 2016 Venue

What did I learn from the 2016 annual European Meteorological Society (EMS) conference that last week was hosted in Trieste (Italy)?

Into the wild Oostvaardersplassen by Roberto Maldeno | Flickr | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Oostvaardersplassen is a nature reserve in the Netherlands managed by the State Forestry Service. Covering about 56 square kilometres it is noted as an example of rewilding, which may be a critical strategy for humanity moving into the future.

Humans are facing the greatest test in the million-year ascent of our kind. But this isn’t a single challenge, like a famine or disease outbreak. It is a constellation of ten huge man-made threats, which are now coming together to imperil our existence...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the U.N. on Wednesday, September 21. CREDIT: AP PHOTO/JASON DECROW

Just one more hurdle remains before the agreement can enter into force...

Official portrait of Abraham Lincoln, who created the National Academy of Sciences, 375 of whose members have effectively called out the Republican Party’s refusal to take climate change threats seriously. Photograph: GraphicaArtis/Getty Images

375 National Academy of Sciences members sign an open letter expressing frustration at political inaction on climate change...