The first signs of warming from the rise in greenhouse gases which came hand-in-hand with the Industrial Revolution appear as early as 1830. Photograph: Print Collector/Getty Images

Signs of warming appear as early as 1830 say researchers, whose analysis will help build accurate baseline of temperature before influence of human activity...

2C of global warming would move the world into ‘uncharted territory’, analysis by Climate Analytics found. Photograph: John Giles/PA

Climate Institute report says negative-emissions technology is imperative because risks of global temperature reaching 2C are ‘unmanageable’...

Australia's climate will move into unpredictable territory if global warming reaches 2 degrees.  Photo: Glenn Campbell

As the world endures a third straight year of record-breaking heat, a new study has given fresh insight into what global warming is likely to mean for Australians if it is not curbed...

Activists deliver flood debris to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in New Orleans on Tuesday, the day before the agency leased more Gulf waters for oil extraction. CREDIT: COURTESY 350.ORG

Another 138,000 acres off Louisiana’s coasts will be explored for oil...

A youngster takes a backward plunge into the Thomas Jefferson pool in East Harlem in New York during a citywide heat wave in July. Photo courtesy of AP Images.

NEW YORK — Outside her apartment, at the height of a midsummer heat wave in Harlem, Caroline Gwynn shared her tips for staying cool without air conditioning...

Photo: Elephant seals with satellite trackers provide scientists with detailed information about water flows in Prydz Bay. (Clive R. McMahon )

A group of elephant seals in Antarctica has helped show how freshwater from melting ice shelves affects a key part of the engine that drives the circulation of the world's oceans...

Have you ever rented a car from Enterprise? Or Alamo, or National — which are part of Enterprise, the biggest car rental company in the world? There are so many costs involved in renting a car. You have to pay for the rental, the gas, the insurance...

Arctic sea ice melt in May. ‘The Arctic sea ice is declining by 13% a decade.’ Photograph: NOAA

The Arctic’s ice is disappearing. We must reduce emissions, fast, or the human castastrophe predicted by ocean scientist Peter Wadhams will become reality...

Ice rift in Larsen Ice Shelf. Getty Images/Universal Images Group

A large rift is widening across an increasingly fragile Antarctic ice shelf, scientists found. The crack is spreading across the Larsen C Ice Shelf at an increased rate, threatening to carve out an iceberg the size of Delaware while destabilizing a larger area of ice roughly the size of Scotland...

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Clinton's Transition Team: A Corporate Presidency Foretold...

Jill Stein: ‘We need to acknowledge the true state of emergency we’re in.’ Photograph: MediaPunch/Rex/Shutterstock

Presidential hopeful points to California wildfires and Louisiana flooding in push for Green New Deal to address both environment and economy...

Where there’s smoke, there’s Montana...

Live more simply so others may simply live...

To sustain a livable environment, all basic human needs must be met as sufficient steady state stocks of natural capital are maintained. Guaranteeing a basic income as the greed of the billionaire class is tamed are keys to avoiding biosphere collapse and the end of being...

Extreme summer: From wildfires to deadly floods, global warming is increasingly apparent...

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Toxic algae blooms, perhaps accelerated by ocean warming and other climate shifts, are spreading, poisoning marine life and people...

Standing water closes roads in Sorrento, La., Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016. Louisiana continues to dig itself out from devastating floods, with search parties going door to door looking for survivors or bodies trapped by flooding. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

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ST. AMANT, La. (AP) — Flood-weary residents cleaned out houses Saturday as search parties went door to door looking for survivors or bodies trapped by flooding so powerful in some cases it disturbed the dead and sent caskets floating from cemeteries...

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The Crystal Serenity has embarked on a 1000-mile voyage through the once un-navigable Northwest Passage...

Syrian refugee camp

That climate change seems to be a factor in social collapse is now fairly firmly established. Researchers have identified evidence of prolonged drought that preceded the collapse of Assyrian and Bronze Age civilizations in prehistory...

A Rainforest Alliance trainer runs a session on climate-smart agriculture in Ghana. PHOTO/Rainforest Alliance

A sustainable approach to farming can boost yields while reducing damage to natural resources and the climate...