Nature boost for Berlin as Amazon funds city climate protection

Megan Rowling|Published

Germany's capital Berlin will serve as a testing ground for a European project backed by online retailer Amazon. com to work out how best to revive and expand city ...

Young climate activists vow to #FightEveryCrisis in global online strike

Megan Rowling|Published

Young activists from about 20 countries took to Youtube in a 24-hour broadcast to share ideas on how to fight global warming.

Can we save forests and produce palm oil?

Megan Rowling|Published

A fledgling effort to balance forest protection and oil palm production aims to ease tensions between companies and forest communities.

Plantations destroying Asia’s peatlands

Megan Rowling|Published

Drainage of peatlands to cultivate oil palm in Malaysia's Rajang Delta is causing land subsidence that will bring large-scale floods, say researchers.

Forest protection scheme sewn up

Megan Rowling|Published

Negotiators have reached a surprise resolution to thorny issues relating to forest protection at UN climate talks.

Finance ignores impacts at own peril

Megan Rowling|Published

Financial markets have yet to grasp the urgency of investing in measures to protect from the impacts of climate change, say climate finance experts.

World has no choice but to decarbonise - UN

Megan Rowling|Published

'It makes fundamental economic sense' for countries to push forward on tackling climate change, says the UN's top climate change official.

‘Start now for cheaper carbon-free growth’

Megan Rowling|Published

The latest science says the world needs to reach zero net emissions by 2100 to stabilise global warming.

Climate scientists to speed up analysis

Megan Rowling|Published

Scientists have become more adept at working out whether climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions is exacerbating wild weather.