Reconstructing the climate of the past is an important tool for scientists to better understand and predict future climate changes that are the result of the present-day global warming. Although there is still little known about the Earth’s tropical and subtropical regions, these regions are thought to play an important role in both the evolution of prehistoric man and global climate changes.

Carnegie Mellon University's Christopher L. Weber argues that China's new title as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter is at least partly due to consumption of Chinese goods in the West.

The results of a new study suggest that past climate changes and sea level fluctuations may have promoted the formation of new species in the Amazon region of South America.

Philanthropists Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham are creating a second climate change research centre in London, following their donation of £12 million to Imperial College in 2007 to establish the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, it was announced today.

If you missed last month’s Leverhulme Climate Symposium, you can now watch the highlights from the four day event online.

California electricity and natural gas customers will be charged $600 million over the next 10 years to fund a green think tank, the California Public Utilities Commission unanimously voted on Thursday.

Environmental groups have welcomed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's announcement of closer cooperation with China on climate change issues.

China will endeavor to alleviate and meanwhile take active measures to adapt itself to climate change, Chinese officials said in Beijing on Monday.

An Australian National University scientist says the planet is losing species at a similar rate to the period when the dinosaurs were wiped out.

A conference in Hobart has heard the term 'climate change' can also be applied to the workforce.

European Union leaders have backed ambitious goals to fight climate change but stressed that they must be affordable at a time of economic downturn.

EU leaders met in Brussels on Thursday and Friday to define a joint solution on how to cut greenhouse gases whilst protecting individual countries’ industries.