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“Mini-IPCC” report focuses on North America

US Climate Change Science Program releases report on abrupt climate change.

Sour future for the oceans?

Call for carbon-dioxide levels to be brought down to 350 ppm to prevent ocean acidification and huge economic losses.

Predicting the climate future

Forum for the Future suggests five likely scenarios for the world in 2050.

Moving times for wildlife

Climate change is already causing disruptions in species ranges but tropical species have fewer options than those at mid-latitudes.

Climate adaptation takes the stage

Physical and social scientists must work together to make and employ the predictions needed to inform policymaking for climate adaptation and mitigation.

Monitoring the melting of the Arctic

Liz Kalaugher joins a research ship in the Canadian Arctic to find out how microwave imaging can reveal where and how fast the ice is melting.

Climate talks continue in Ghana

Deforestation and sectoral approach prove key areas for discussion.

Renewable energy: price and policy are key

Sustainable energy resources are plentiful but exploiting them at large scales is more of a challenge, heard delegates at the WREN conference.

Going sour: protecting the oceans

Including ocean acidification worries in carbon regulation would probably lower emissions targets, say researchers.

Renewable energy investment takes off

In 2007 $148 bn was invested in clean energy and energy efficiency, says the latest report for the UN Environment Programme.

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Climate wars damage the scientists but we all stand to lose in the battle

It is open season on climate scientists, but such hand-wringing has allowed the creeping rehabilitation of climate scepticism (from the Guardian)

How to reform the IPCC

The Guardian asks experts around the world what needs to change to enable the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to continue to play a central and positive role in enabling the world's governments to take the right action against climate change (from the Guardian)

Testing times for geoengineering

Solar-radiation measurement techniques would be impossible to trial on small scale, say scientists

Copenhagen: what next?

UNFCC mandarin Yvo de Boer and climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf give their views

Irrational fears give nuclear power a bad name, says Oxford scientist

Wade Allison says misplaced health stigma has prevented the full benefits of nuclear energy being explored. (From the Guardian)

Copenhagen: why I believe all is not lost – yet

If the world can acknowledge what went wrong at Copenhagen and learn from it, then we can still step back from the brink of disaster, says Robin McKie. (From the Guardian.)

All eyes turn to Copenhagen

The spotlight is soon to fall on climate negotiators but recent weeks have raised a number of "tricky" issues for climate scientists.

Climate change: how to win hearts and minds

With climate scepticism on the rise in the US and elsewhere, Columbia University has issued a guide on how to breakdown misperceptions and communicate about climate science effectively

Publicize or perish

Joseph Romm urges scientists to do much more to warn the public of the dangers of climate change

Fragile China: environmental policy comes to the fore

A projected significant decrease in food production in China under global warming has brought about a sea change in government policy on the environment, says Robin Porter