The world's peatlands are "dangerously under-protected", warns a new study, despite their critical role in storing vast amounts of carbon and the alarming levels of climate-heating carbon dioxide ...

Algae don't get the credit or attention they deserve. They are responsible for much of the oxygen we breathe, play pivotal ...

Researchers from Beijing Normal University have analyzed how China's land system may change in 2100 under a 1.5°C global ...

We may still be able to save ourselves from the worst of the damage the climate change will bring – but we are desperately ...

Regions like northeastern Brazil, one of the world’s notable cocoa-producing areas, are grappling with increasing aridity – a ...

Earth is crossing the threshold of 1.5°C of global warming, according to two major global studies which together suggest the ...

This Valentine's Day, millions of pounds worth of chocolate will be exchanged as gifts, but climate change and biodiversity loss imperil future global supplies of this treat. A new research study ...

Extensive evidence, including global temperature and sea ice data, shows Earth's climate is changing due to human activity.

“The existence of winter doesn't disprove climate change,” says Stuart Evans, assistant professor of geography at the ...

There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

Could future maps give us a glimpse of what the world's population will look like in 2100? Experts are drawing up maps which ...