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If predictions of environmentalists are to be believed, Kolkata could be one of the lost cities that would go under water by 2100. The rate of global warming is more than earlier expected and the net rise in sea level...

The Copenhagen climate change talks will discuss how to capture the energy from such "renewable" sources. The UK plans to get 15% of all its energy that way within just 10 years...But the government's advisor is sceptical of just how...

Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, will step aside "until the completion of an independent review," the university said in a statement. "It is an important step to ensure that CRU...

It is estimated the scheme may help people save £28 a year – but installing the meters will cost between £7bn and £9bn, about £340 per household. The Government wants to see 47 million meters installed in 26 million properties...

How we treat trees could be the key to solving climate change or to making it much worse, so it poses a central question for the Copenhagen summit. Although the rush to bulldoze the world's forests and turn them into...

Mr Yeo, who now chairs the Commons Environmental Audit Committee, hit back at Tory critics of Mr Cameron’s stance on green issues and predicted that climate change sceptics will have disappeared in five years. Mr Yeo said: “A significant number...

China has earned 153m carbon credits, worth more than $1bn and making up almost half of the total issued under the UN-run programme in the past five years, according to a Financial Times analysis...Industrial countries can meet part of their...

The carbon 'debt' in 2008 was equivalent to the joint emissions of the US and China. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP The world is rapidly depleting its "carbon budget" for the first half of this century and must slash the carbon...

Ontario is making significant strides toward reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions, say environmentalists who have reviewed the province's second annual report on climate change. The report, released Wednesday, says Ontario is 71 per cent of the way toward its reduction...