Geoffrey Lean

Bali conference is the world's

It is salutary that Gordon Brown has been faced with a climate-driven crisis so early in his premiership

Humanity is approaching an unprecedented crisis when not enough oil and gas will be produced to keep industrial civilisation running, the world's top oilmen warned last week.

Britain's storms and Europe's heat are two sides of the same climatic coin.

Ripon, one of the towns worst hit by this weekend's floods, could have escaped if ministers had provided the funds needed to protect it.

Tony Blair may have only a little more than three weeks left in office, but that gives him plenty of time for his greatest ever international triumph, or for his biggest betrayal yet.

Global warming is accelerating three times more quickly than feared, a series of startling, authoritative studies has revealed.

Winds fan blaze that has charred 300 square miles of land rendered tinder-dry by drought

As scientists deliver a detailed report on the impact of climate change this week, an 'IoS' investigation shows it will spark a major rise in conflicts

Climate experts hit back after being accused of overstating the problem

Authoritative international reports to be published over the next months will show that, for the first time, we will soon be a predominantly urban species, with more people living in towns and cities than in the countryside.

With trees bursting into bud and ski runs looking like spring meadows, the Alpine winter appears to have been cancelled

The great ape's habitat is rapidly being destroyed - by the rush to produce an environmentally friendly fuel

Revealed: Government food watchdog gave green light to supermarkets to sell 'illegal' genetically modified rice

President Bush is preparing an astonishing U-turn on global warming, senior Washington sources say. After years of trying to sabotage agreements to tackle climate change he is drawing up plans to control emissions of carbon dioxide and rapidly boost the use of renewable energy sources.

July was a record-breaker, but August may be even hotter as winds sweep in from Sahara

Time is running out for the Amazon rainforest. And the fate of the 'lungs of the world' will take your breath away

Alarming new satellite evidence of the effects of global warming comes as forecasters predict more severe hurricanes

That's the message of a new campaign as some of our rarest species can be found on land and water revered by tribes the world over.

Global warming is set to accelerate alarmingly because of a sharp jump in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

For years our award-winning environment editor had supported nuclear power. But far from cutting global warming, he now believes, building more reactors will make it worse

Global disaster will follow if the ice cap on Greenland melts. Now scientists say it is vanishing far faster than even they expected. Geoffrey Lean reports

Disappearance of plankton causes unprecedented collapse in sea and bird life off western US coast

Toxic chemicals in the New Orleans flood waters will make the city unsafe for full human habitation for a decade, a US government official has told The Independent on Sunday. And, he added, the Bush administration is covering up the danger.

The ozone layer has stopped shrinking but it will take decades to start recovering, US scientists reported on Tuesday.

Rats fed GM corn due for sale in Britain developed abnormalities in blood and kidneys.

'Dead zones', where pollution has starved the sea of life-giving oxygen, are increasing at a devastating rate.

Scientists believe they have found a wholly new species of mammal deep in the heart of one of the richest, least studied and most endangered wildlife areas on earth.

The longest river in America has been so badly affected by drought it could be unnavigable by next year.

Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification.