UN Zambia: Meeting in Bonn for the first time after the historic UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, governments made progress in ensuring that this year’s conference in Doha, at the end of 2012, can take the next essential steps towards meeting the long-term challenge of climate change. Progress was made notably in the areas of preparing for the

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ICRISAT: Climate change has emerged as the biggest threat to livelihood sustainability of our times, posing an imminent danger to our food security and a challenge for improving agricultural productivity. Presently, scientists are identifying and refi ning the projections of future location specifi c climate scenarios that farmers might have to deal with. In India,

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Nature: Seeming public apathy over climate change is often attributed to a deficit in comprehension. The public knows too little science, it is claimed, to understand the evidence or avoid being misled1. Widespread limits on technical reasoning aggravate the problem by forcing citizens to use unreliable cognitive heuristics to assess risk2. We conducted a study

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News Day: Debate over the agenda of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) talks is often much more than a procedural fight; its about the content, context and paradigm for the negotiations. At the Bonn talks which concluded after two bitter weeks of negotiations at the weekend, there were divisions over whether mitigation

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Dailymail UK: Climate change wiped out one of the world’s first, great civilisations more than 4,000 years ago Ancient ‘Indus’ civilisation was one of first great urban cultures Stretched for a million square kilometres Climate change altered routes of rivers Climate change led to the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization more than 4,000 years

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ABC Science: Climate change may have a more unpredictable effect on the distribution of cold-blooded animals than scientists had previously thought, a new analysis shows. Marine biologist Dr Amanda Bates and colleagues set out to explore how global warming will affect the distribution of animals such as fish, frogs and lizards. “Although people had assumed

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