The Earth is on a “disastrous trajectory” with “no adequate global governance” to deal with the scale of threats posed by climate tipping points, warns a major new report. These tipping points “pose ...

The Amazon rainforest is so big that it makes its own climate. As they photosynthesise and transpire, its billions of trees collectively produce enough moisture to form clouds. These, by some ...

Our work in this area seeks to improve on economic estimates of the impacts of tipping points in the climate system. To date, climate economics still features a number of blind spots concerning ...

Laura Pereira receives funding from Oppenheimer Research and Conservation, Formas, European Research Council, NRF. New research has found that the world has reached the first of many Earth system ...

The most state-of-the-art tool available to climate scientists is, perhaps, the Earth System Model (ESM). These climate models simulate the flow of energy, moisture and chemicals through the ...

Africa is more vulnerable than any other region to the world's changing weather patterns, explains climate specialist Richard Washington. The African continent will be hardest hit by climate change.

Roy Spencer was a Visiting Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. The observed rate of global warming over the past 50 years has been weaker than that ...

How does adaptation differ from mitigation? And what is REDD? The jargon of climate change can be hard to grasp. Use this glossary to decode it. Adaptation Action that helps cope with the effects of ...