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.

In the current debate over the longer-term effects of 21st century global warming and climate change, research from The Open University (UK) is now providing some compelling evidence of what can happen when the Earth’s oceans and atmosphere become much warmer.

A research centre to analyse how society should respond to the challenge of climate change is being established by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the University of Leeds.

In research published today in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, The Open University Professor of Earth Sciences Bob Spicer casts doubt on our ability to accurately predict future climate changes because we simply don't know enough about the past. The paper was co-authored by Paul Valdes, Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Bristol and colleagues in Leeds, Sweden, Russia and Austria.

Scientists say they have taken an array of new marine species from the seabed off eastern Antarctica. They are warning, though, that climate change could soon make extinct many of the strange creatures they have just discovered. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports.

A team of climate experts has compiled a shortlist of nine areas in the world that are in danger of passing critical thresholds or ‘tipping points’ due to climate change.

Scientists are hoping to find new information about climate change by studying an unusual coral reef that is far from the famous Barrier Reef, hundreds of metres below the surface of the Southern Ocean.

A senior Chinese official said in Honolulu, United States Wednesday that all relevant countries should take practical actions to slow down the climate change process.