Researchers looking at 20 years of satellite data say precipitation will increase with global warming - but their conclusions have been questioned

Evidence for declining populations is under attack - but others say inconvenient data is being ignored

Evaporation from irrigated fields keeps temperatures artificially low in summer – but the effect is likely to diminish as water supplies dwindle

NASA physicist James Hansen explains why he thinks a sea level rise of several metres is a near certainty if greenhouse gas emissions keep increasing unchecked

The findings underscore the dramatic temperature increases being seen at high elevations in tropical regions, in addition to those at the poles

Turbulent conditions caused by global warming mean one of the world’s largest carbon sinks can no longer store carbon dioxide at the rate humans produce it

But the Environmental Protection Agency stopped short of committing to regulate the greenhouse gases that spur on global warming

Pumping carbon dioxide through hot rocks could simultaneously boost efficiency and mop up greenhouse gases

The plan amounts to a “post-industrial revolution”, says the European Commission, and aims to beat the bloc’s oil addiction and combat climate change

Europe’s largest fire incident in fifty years may have been caused by a fuel spill or leak, say experts, but the health and environmental effects should be limited