Michael McCarthy

A Channel 4 documentary which claimed that the idea of man-made climate change was a fraud and a conspiracy has been censured by the broadcasting regulator. Ofcom.

Driven by climate change, the 21st century will see a dramatic shift in the nation's feathered population with many species either arriving for the first time or leaving for good. Michael McCarthy reports

Climate change is continuing to progress in the Arctic, according to the first annual edition of an "Arctic Report Card" issued by a US-led team of scientists.

Pipes hanging in the ocean might bring global warming under control, two of Britain's most distinguished scientists suggest today.

This summer is set to be the wettest ever. It's the latest in a series of broken records which suggest climate change is here already.

The Government is likely to miss its latest target for cutting back greenhouse gas emissions by a wide margin, a report said yesterday.

Because hurricanes like the one which has careered across the Caribbean and was last night striking Mexico are only formed when the surface temperature of the ocean exceeds a specific point, which is 26C.

Flood-ravaged Britain is suffering from a wholly new type of civil emergency, it is clear today: a disaster caused by 21st-century weather.

When New Labour came to power in 1997, one of the benefits it promised - and it was much talked about at the time - was a "joined-up" transport policy, a rationally thought-through national transportation system.

When Live Earth, the unprecedented 24-hour global concert to raise awareness of climate change, sounds out its last note late tonight, will it have begun the vital breakthrough in terms of triggering action to save the planet?

The news that the mortal threat of global warming is being greeted with a yawn by half the population of Britain may shock you. It shouldn't.

It's official: it was the wettest June on record in England, and the renewed downpours expected over much of Britain today will probably make it the wettest June recorded in the United Kingdom as a whole.

Even though yesterday's remarkable downpours seem very much out of the ordinary, no scientist is going to say that in themselves they prove the climate is changing.

Back in the 1970s, Barry Commoner was one of the first environmentalists to warn that the earth had limits - and human society was on course to exceed them. Now, as he turns 90, his message is more relevant than ever.

The home of the future will be kind to the environment. This week ministers laid the foundations

The earth's ability to soak up the gases causing global warming is beginning to fail because of rising temperatures, in a long-feared sign of "positive feedback," new research reveals today.

Aviation growth is soaring to an all-time high, raising the prospect of a huge increase in the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.

Global warming is solvable, United Nations climate change experts said yesterday, in a landmark judgement running counter to increasing pessimism about the most serious threat facing the world.

Bored with your usual holiday? Try watching bits of the world as they start to heat up! The effects of climate change are leading to a distinctive new form of 21st-century travel: global-warming tourism.

A flurry of snow slowed down southern Britain yesterday and brought much of it grinding to a halt.

Europe, the richest and most fertile continent and the model for the modern world, will be devastated by climate change, the European Union predicts today.

As many as six million Christmas trees, enough to stretch end to end from London to the North Pole and back, will be incinerated or dumped into landfill sites in Britain once the festive season is over, research has revealed.

He's Lovelace the rockhopper, one of the stars of this winter's hit animated comedy about dancing penguins, Happy Feet. But in real life, he's in trouble.

Animals that hibernate in winter abandoning hibernation: yet another signal that something momentous is happening to the rhythms of the natural world, in the way in which we have always understood them.

Tornadoes are violently rotating columns of air that usually form in the unstable atmosphere of a thunderstorm, when winds of opposite directions meet and start a column of air spinning.

Journalists were bizarrely banned from asking questions at the launch of the Stern Review yesterday, so the question several reporters wanted to ask Tony Blair, who was presiding, was never

One third of the planet will be desert by the year 2100, say climate experts in the most dire warning yet of the effects of global warming

Predictions from supercomputer models of the earth's atmosphere, about how global warming would progress, were the main drivers of that heroic effort to agree international reductions in the greenhouse gases which cause it.

Environmentalists have reacted with dismay to the news that wildlife protection, waste management, protection of fisheries, canal repairs and flood defence would all have to be scaled back because of massive emergency funding cuts at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Everyone knows about the giant panda. Everyone knows about the tiger and the polar bear and how they are threatened with extinction.