Articles on climate change
Britain's weather extremesAs the country braces for the latest round of bad weather, it feels as though winter is trying to sneak in early this season.
How We Avoided An Ice-AgeIntensive farming by our ancestors may have inadvertently prevented an ice age by releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and creating an early global warming effect.
All you need to know about the Kyoto ProtocolIt was the first concerted effort by the world to tackle climate change but what was it all about and why does it still matter today?
Save the tropical rainforestsWith rainforest destruction worsening the affects of climate change the Prince of Wales is calling on developed countries to pay to save them.
Space waste: the growing problemSpace junk is a growing problem, and one that experts now believe could put future space exploration at risk.
Record-breaking British weatherThere are some places in the UK that have witnessed conditions utterly at odds with our normally temperate climate.
Sinkhole appears in Guatemala CityA massive sinkhole has opened up in Guatemala City reportedly swallowing up a clothing factory and several other buildings.
The UK's most extreme weatherEvery so often the usually mild and predictable climate in the UK is interrupted by a dose of atypically severe weather.
Snow hits the UK againSnow and heavy rain has made it a miserable Monday morning for millions, with forecasters predicting further wintry weather for the rest of the week.
How to fake the weatherOrganisers of this year's Winter Olympics have had to deal with a somewhat fundamental problem: an absence of snow.
