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Trump says 'nobody really knows' if climate change is real
President-elect hints at approving Keystone XL pipeline and speeding up energy projects.
Christmas Day could be the UK's warmest ever with temperatures hitting 15C
Hedgehogs are being born early, thinking that the hibernation period is over.
Planet Earth II gets climate change message across successfully - by not mentioning climate change
Final episode of series will focus on cities and how animals adapt to these artificial habitats.
Avalanche in Tibet that killed 9 yak herders traced back to climate change
Historically stable parts of the Tibetan plateau are now starting to collapse.
Greenland's ice sheet once did a vanishing trick that lasted 280,000 years
In the Pleistocene period, small ice caps at the easternmost edges of the country were the only ones to survive.
A 500,000-year history of climate change in the US shows animals react in unpredictable ways
Some animals were vulnerable to historic climate change, while other populations actually increased.
The world's polar bear population is on a knife edge – and set to fall by a third by 2050
As sea ice is lost due to climate change, polar bears will have nowhere to hunt and live.
Are the headlines true, that a chunk of polar ice the size of India just melted into the sea?
No, it's not true. But there are plenty of unusual things happening at the poles at the moment.
Antarctica is still reeling from rapid melting in the last ice age
Ice deep in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet records how quickly the continent warmed from 20,000 years ago.
Climate change activist Al Gore holds 'extremely interesting' meeting with Trump on climate change
The former US vice president met Ivanka Trump ahead of meeting her father to discuss climate change.
Ivanka Trump to meet former vice president Al Gore to discuss 'climate issues'
Previous reports suggested that Ivanka Trump wanted to make climate change one of her signature issues.
Landslide tsunamis becoming 'more frequent' amid fears of significant threat to UK
Nuclear plants need to be protected against natural disasters occurring once every 10,000 years.
UAE teen Kehkashan Basu wins International Children's Peace Prize for environmental activism
The 16-year-old is leading a global fight against climate degradation.
Vietnam's forests could be saved from destruction if coffee growers go Fairtrade
Climate change will halve Vietnam's coffee plantations by 2050, but destroying forests for more plantations would make the problem worse.
The size of extreme cluster tornadoes hitting the US has doubled in 50 years – and no one knows why
The overall number of tornadoes hasn't increased, but they're coming in bigger, more dangerous clusters.
When was the worst time to be alive?
The decade saw freakishly bad weather – and if the cold didn't kill you, famine, disease or poverty might.
Millennium Eruption at North Korea's volcano was so big it should've cooled the planet for years
Eruption in 946CE released more climate forcing gasses than any other volcano in last 2,000 years.
Google Earth Timelapse update shows stunning images depicting 30 years of climate change
The imagery shows processes that changed the planet including deforestation and glacial movement.
Brazil's environmental police are fighting a losing battle against illegal loggers in the Amazon
The rate of deforestation in the Amazon is on the rise again. Over the past four years it has risen 35%.
Deep cracks are appearing inland at Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica
Fast-melting glacier is breaking apart in a manner previously unseen in an Antarctic ice sheet.
One nation leader Pauline Hanson denies coral bleaching and climate change
Pauline Hanson blasted by conservationists for taking media to Queensland's Great Barrier Reef.
A Peruvian farmer is suing German energy giant RWE over climate change
Churup Glacier in Peru is melting due to climate change and a resident is suing RWE.
The North Pole is at melting point now, when it's normally -20°C at this time of year
Warmer oceans and winds plus higher temperatures combine to begin a 'vicious circle' of warming in the Arctic.
'A terrible place' - the fastest-melting glacier in Antarctica started disappearing in the 1940s
The Pine Island Glacier began melting due to extreme El Niño activity, and is now responsible for 5% of global sea-level rise.
Viral graph shows catastrophic polar ice loss due to extreme weather
Scientists say extreme events are partly due to climate change but had different causes.
Bolivia is suffering worst drought in 25 years, with no end in sight
Much of La Paz receives water just three days a week, from 6am to 9am, because reservoirs serving the city are nearly dry.
Donald Trump just backtracked on man-made climate change: 'I think there is some connectivity'
Trump softens campaign rhetoric and says he has "an open mind" on Paris Agreement.
Mysterious ancient rock art unearthed in Jordan's Black Desert
The inscriptions tell the story of how life flourished in the desert 2,000 years ago.
Canada announces plan to phase-out coal power by 2030
The move comes after similar plans were announced by France, the UK and other European countries.
US record high temperature forecasts for the future are out
Previous models overestimated how much record high temperatures would be affected by warming climate.