Articles about 'Climate change'

The negotiating styles of the world’s biggest rising powers – China, India and Brazil – could offer important clues about any future challenge they may pose to international stability, a new study suggests.

The forgotten story of the British organisation that enabled the development of a system for measuring Longitude, only to disappear from memory after its demise, is to be told in full for the first time.

The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.

Industrialists, academics and government should join forces to drive a new industrial revolution which would help tackle climate change, says a new report.

The business leaders of over 500 companies from around the world will this morning publish The Copenhagen Communiqué calling on world leaders to agree "an ambitious, robust and equitable global deal on climate change that responds credibly to the scale and urgency of the crisis facing the world today".

Chinese, Indian, American and British scientists have released a conference declaration urging a region-by-region response to increased water scarcity and heightened hazards.

New understanding of the physics of clouds is helping to model both climate change and the impact of volcanic eruptions and wild fires.

Scientists have warned that world leaders are in a race against time to make key decisions about the future of international co-operation in the Arctic.

The insurance industry this week launched a new initiative to tackle the challenge of climate change and encourage more climate-friendly customer behaviour.

Cambridge Earth Scientists are contributing to our understanding of the climate system by studying the history of climate change recorded in sediments deposited on the sea floor.