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Obama launches festival of 'ideas art and action'

Barack Obama and actor Leonardo DiCaprio make climate change pleas at launch of 'South by South Lawn' festival at the White House

04/10/2016

Europe News

EU agrees to ratify Paris climate deal

Environment ministers from across the EU agreed to ratify a landmark UN climate accord on Friday.

30/09/2016

USA

Paris climate agreement "in force by end of 2016"

The Paris climate agreement came a step closer to taking effect on Wednesday (Sept.

21/09/2016

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Could optical fibre sensors save lives?

When driving on a road embankment, we hope that it won’t collapse under the wheels of our vehicle, but how certain can we really be?

12/09/2016

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Takeaway: groundbreaking sensors

Optical fibre can do more than high-speed internet: it can save lives on the road.

12/09/2016

Iceland

Iceland: rapid glacier melting drastically alters landscape

The rivers running from one Iceland’s largest glacier’s have combined to become one for the first time since the middle ages.

09/09/2016

China

China and US ratify Paris climate change deal

The world’s two biggest polluters, China and the US, have both ratified the Paris climate change agreement.

03/09/2016

China

US and China ratify Paris climate change deal

The world’s two biggest polluters, China and the US, have both ratified the Paris climate change agreement.

03/09/2016

China

World's biggest polluter China ratifies Paris climate change deal

China has ratified the Paris climate change agreement, boosting efforts to bring the deal into force by the end of the year.

03/09/2016

USA

President Obama on climate change tour

Months before he leaves office, President Barack Obama has embarked on a whistle stop climate change tour of the US's western states before a meeting of the G20 summit in China.

01/09/2016

USA

Controversial new cruise 'only possible because of climate change'

A controversial first cruise through the Arctic has set sail from Alaska.

23/08/2016

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Polar research warms up

In this edition of Futuris we travel to northern Sweden, some 150km inside the Arctic Circle where winter temperatures can fall to -45ºc.

12/08/2016

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Takeaway: polar research warms up

12/08/2016

Sci-Tech

Cloning giant sequoias to battle climate change

California's Sierra Nevada Mountains host the biggest and oldest sequoia on earth, some close to 100m tall and up to 3000 years old.

26/07/2016

World News

Hot mess: Earth on track for hottest year on record

It’s a record that’s been broken every month of this year, but it’s bad news for the earth.

22/07/2016

World News

Who is the worst in the EU for 'exporting' deadly coal pollution?

Poland, Germany and Romania are the EU’s worst when it comes to ‘exporting’ deadly fumes from their coal-fired power plants, a groundbreaking new report has…

05/07/2016

Spain

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Paris Agreement win Asturias Award

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement have won the International Cooperation division of the 2016 Princess of Asturias Awards.

22/06/2016

World News

All you need to know on Europe's deadly air pollution problem

Key decision are expected in June around EU-wide limits for air pollution.

07/06/2016

World News

Europe's Copernicus emergency system activated to manage floods

The European Commission’s emergency management system Copernicus has been activated to deal with the floods in France, Belgium and Germany.

03/06/2016

France

France sees worst flooding since records began

Scenes in parts of France look like something out of a Jules Verne novel, with severe weather warnings issued in some of the worst affected areas.

31/05/2016