In the summer of 2010, Russia faced a severe drought, a heat wave and a series of catastrophic wildfires, destroying a third of the country's wheat harvest. Half a year later, the Arab Spring began.
Britain's plans match a similar pledge made this month by France.
More frequent severe droughts, coral bleaching are on the agenda with more extreme El Nino events predicted even with ambitious climate goals.
Weather patterns delivering an exceptionally dry winter across south-eastern Australia show little sign of breaking up.
Don't laugh. There are important lessons in the unlikely story of how the world came to mitigate the effects of a ticking time bomb under modern civilisation.
The nation's largest power generator has urged the federal government to exclude coal from its planned clean energy target, saying there is no appetite among private investors to fund new coal-fired power plants.
Budget cuts to key US climate programs proposed by President Trump are a major worry for the international research community.
It's not just rising seas and bigger storm surges you need to be worried about.
Momentum in Australia's renewable energy industry remains fragile as uncertainty clouds post-2020 prospects, the US energy giant says.
The Turnbull government has named investment banker and former ABC director Steven Skala as the new chair of its $10 billion green investment agency in a move welcomed by the renewable energy industry.
Investments by the government's $10 billion clean energy fund are growing at an "almost exponential" rate but growth could shudder to a halt if the industry's post-2020 policy is not settled, according to the agency's new head.
The iceberg has broken off from an Antarctic ice shelf, changing the shape of the Antarctic Peninsula forever.
A G20 communique has been agreed despite the US stalling over a fossil fuel clause.
The federal government has answered calls to release greenhouse gas pollution data it had been sitting on since last year.
Documents obtained under FOI laws confirm the government is sitting on almost one year's worth of national greenhouse pollution data.
France has also set a goal to become carbon neutral by 2050.
How much Earth will warm in response to future greenhouse gas emissions may be one of the most fundamental questions in climate science - but it's also one of the most difficult to answer.
To strike the latest blow in his Twitter war with US President Donald Trump, Schwarzenegger has recruited French President Emmanuel Macron.
Hopes gas will play the role of a so-called transition fuel towards a low-carbon future are dimming as costs of renewable energy dive and its emissions edge over coal is increasingly questioned, a new report by the Climate Action Tracker argues.
The NSW opposition leader Luke Foley has been caught out promising a policy that the Berejiklian government has already begun.
Our political and business leaders have given up. The rest of must act instead.
Like the Pythonesque parrot, Alan Finkel's independent review into the future security of Australia's electricity market is merely sleeping.
Rising temperatures and humidity will make the world's tropics increasingly unliveable by pushing more people to the thresholds of their physical tolerance and beyond, a new international study finds.
The chief scientist is struggling to solve one of Australia's most intractable problems.
Solar power, once so costly it only made economic sense in spaceships, is becoming cheap enough that it will push coal and even natural-gas plants out of business faster than previously forecast.
Australia's greenhouse gas emissions could return to 2005 levels by 2030 without new government action, contrary to the scenario modelled by the Finkel review, according to a new report by respected analyst Hugh Saddler.
Here's a guide to the Finkel Review, in case, like Tony Abbott, you haven't read it.
Australia's chief scientist has steered a politically pragmatic course in his landmark energy report.
Australians overwhelmingly want governments to favour renewable energy - even if it costs more, Lowy Institute poll finds.
Sometimes, the lost desert wanderer does stumble into an oasis, replete with the proverbial date palms and life-saving waters.
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