Climate Change

Women pluck tea leaves at a tea garden at Jorhat, in the Indian state of Assam

How Assam's tea is beginning to feel the strain of global warming

Lush green tea plantations, so bright they often look fluorescent, blanket the hills of Assam in northeastern India. Women plucking the leaves in black aprons with large baskets on their backs dot the gardens that contribute to India's production of nearly a third of the world's tea. But this picturesque industry that the British began in the early 19th-century faces a very modern problem: climate change.

Inside Climate Change

India's hidden climate change catastrophe

Sunday, 2 January 2011

Alex Renton: Over the past decade, as crops have failed year after year, 200,000 farmers have killed themselves.

Expect more extreme winters thanks to global warming, say scientists

Friday, 24 December 2010

Steve Connor: Link established between snowy winters in Britain and melting sea ice in the Arctic.

The UK may be cold, but it's still a warm world, says Met Office chief

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Professor Julia Slingo, the Met Office's chief scientist, is adamant that the current cold weather is merely a natural fluctuation – and does not mean that global warming is all a myth.

Arctic's vanishing sea ice presents polar bear with a new danger – grizzlies

Thursday, 16 December 2010

Steve Connor: Fears for future of gene pool as interbreeding between vulnerable species driven together by global warming gathers pace.

At last, the climate changes

Sunday, 12 December 2010

Michael McCarthy witnesses the conclusion of the UN talks – and explains why the deal is good news.

Global warming deal hopes revived after Cancun agreement

Saturday, 11 December 2010

More than 190 countries have struck an agreement at the latest round of UN climate talks that puts efforts to secure a new international deal to tackle global warming back on track.

Climate deal on a knife edge at the 'zombie' conference

Saturday, 11 December 2010

Ministers and officials from nearly 200 countries appeared to be inching towards a new international deal on countering global warming in the UN climate talks in Cancun late last night, although the eventually outcome was still hanging in the balance.

After the cop-out in Copenhagen, it's chaos in Cancun

Friday, 10 December 2010

Michael McCarthy: The latest climate talks are at risk of achieving nothing.

Climate change: the daily reality for farmers

Thursday, 9 December 2010

The UN climate change talks in Cancun are about to conclude. But for millions of people across the world, the awareness of climate change does not rely on the media, or the ebb and flow of global negotiations. It is a terrifying reality. Bringing greater vulnerability to lives already precarious.