Global warming

Over the past three decades, Arctic Sea ice has dramatically declined

El Nino is likely to have an even greater impact on global surface temperatures in 2016

Man-made carbon dioxide, released by burning fossil fuels, forms weak acid when mixed with water, harming marine life

Three hikers and a mountain biker succumb to heatwave in Arizona

May 2016 tied with June and August 2015 as the 12th-highest monthly temperature increase on record

Animation makes global warming instantly visible and shows that danger zones aren’t so far away

The Great Barrier Reef attracts around A$5 billion ($3.90 billion) in tourism every year

China is becoming one of the biggest mining investors in Greenland, agreeing a free trade deal with Iceland

Severe weather hits the country every year, with hundreds killed and huge tracts of farmland destroyed

2015 was the warmest worldwide since 1880

Over six decades, rising water temperatures appear to have been reducing the amount of food for fish

KU VC points out that it can rise by 1.6 to 4.3 degrees by the end of the 21st century

Speakers say climate change has affected lives and livelihood

Pact offers hope that humanity can avert catastrophic climate change

From Tuesday morning, half of Beijing's private cars will be ordered off the road

The richest 10 percent of people produce half of Earth's climate-harming fossil-fuel emissions

Mugabe accused the west of trying to shift the burden for curbing carbon emissions onto poor countries

More than 150 world leaders gathered for a UN summit aimed at reaching an agreement to curb global warming

Even a 2 C rise as targeted by the UN would submerge land currently occupied by 280 million people

The premier assured that Pakistan is adopting environment-friendly policies to overcome climate degradation

Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, one of the biggest contributors to world sea-level rise, is melting irreversibly

India's government is one of the few major economies refusing to pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions

A killer snowstorm in the Himalayas, a scorching heat wave in Argentina; all made worse by climate change

The centre said on its website that Patricia was “the strongest hurricane on record

The higher temperatures along with illegal hunting means that as few as 4,000 of the mysterious animals could be left

Immediate cause of warmth is the strong El Niño weather pattern, in which the ocean releases immense amounts of heat

Tibetan plateau has experienced rising temperatures of 1.3 Celsius over past five decades

India promises to cut the carbon produced per unit of GDP growth by 33-35 per cent

The Climate Group said that 36 major businesses now belong to the initiative, including Walmart and Procter & Gamble

Mushahidullah Khan says industrialised world largely responsible for current situation