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Meltdown on Mont Blanc: mountain 'shrinks' 1.3 metres

Mont Blanc seems to be in a meltdown. The latest measurements of western Europe’s highest mountain appear to show it has shrunk a full 1.3 metres

France

Major UN climate change conference in December 'risks failure'

The French foreign minister says immediate action is needed to ensure the success of a major United Nations conference on climate change at the end

USA

US president tours Resurrection Bay to highlight Alaska climate change

US President Barack Obama has toured Resurrection Bay in the US state of Alaska. Obama is counting on Alaska’s deteriorating landscape to elicit a

USA

US recognises its role in creating climate change

US President Barack Obama told a meeting for foreign ministers in Alaska that world leaders must agree to cut carbon emissions at a UN summit planned

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World News

Scorchio! July 2015: world's hottest month on record

July was the world’s hottest month on record, and we are in the midst of the hottest year on record too, according to the US National Oceanic and

USA

Obama unveils US plan to cut carbon emissions

US President Barack Obama has unveiled a ramped-up plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants. Speaking in Washington, he declared climate change

USA

Obama seeks new energy deal ahead of UN climate talks

US President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan is set to be the most ambitious climate change policy ever to be taken up by an American president. The

Next Series

Supergrass: fighting climate change with riverbank plants

European research project in Ireland offers promise of an alternative energy source from non-native myscanthus grass cultivated along riverbanks

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Do you know: can grass save the planet?

USA

'Do moral duty or doom humanity by climate change'

This June — 2015 — was the hottest June since temperature records began, in 1880. Experts are saying that governments should treat climate change as

France

Climate change 'a matter of conscience' at Paris summit

Mankind’s relationship with nature was the focus of the Climate Summit of Conscience in Paris, hosted by French President Francois Hollande on

Focus

Word up: regions send powerful climate message to COP 21 state negotiators

The world’s regions are in the frontline in the battle against climate change – that was the message sent from a conference of local authorities in

France

Lyon: Climate change one summit at a time

With the Lyon Climate conference over, the focus is now on the November summit in Paris to clinch an elusive deal to stop global warming.

France

3 EU regions sign 'Under 2 MOU' to limit global warming

Three EU regions have agreed to limit climate change. France’s Rhone-Alpes, Scotland and Spain’s Basque County have signed the “Under 2 MOU,“a

France

Lyon world climate summit looks to limit global warming

As heatwaves become more frequent and more intense, the French city of Lyon is hosting hundreds of elected officials from cities, regions and

World News

Europe's green credentials, how do they measure up?

The EU remains in the top three greenhouse gas emitters along with China and the US, but while the EU is decreasing its output, China's emissions have been skyrocketing since 2000.

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Green house gasses explained

Greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere by absorbing the sun’s infrared radiation without reflecting it back towards space. It is an entirely

Netherlands

Dutch court orders Netherlands to cut carbon emissions faster

A Dutch court has ordered its own government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a faster rate than it’s planning to do. A judge in The Hague said

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Do you know: do fish feel global warming?

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G7 fossil-fuel pledge: what's the plan?

The G7 members have agreed to phase out the use of fossil fuels by the year 2100, according to proposals outlined in June 2015. They share this goal