Climate change is causing some of the mightiest rivers on the planet — such as the Ganges, the Niger and the Yellow river in China — to dry up, a new study has found.
The faster …

 
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent by the end of the century would cause the Earth to warm by an average of about 2 degrees rather than twice as high if emissions keep growing …

A poll of climate experts commissioned by the London Guardian newspaper found that nearly 9 out of 10 respondents doubt the world can reach the 2-degree-Celsius target by the end of the century.
 
The poll surveyed more than 1,500 scientists, …

The world’s first retrofit of a power plant with carbon capture and storage technology will begin operating in April in the south of France, The Guardian reported.
Energy company Total has upgraded an existing gas-fired boiler …

Japan in mid-January launched the world’s first satellite dedicated to monitoring global greenhouse gas emissions, as part of efforts to tackle climate change.
The project will enable scientists to measure the quantities of greenhouse gases being …

 
Australia recently became the 34th country to link its carbon registry to the International Transaction Log (ITL), the UN software overseeing international transfer of Kyoto protocol carbon credits, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change …

New Zealand announced in mid-January more than $10 million for new research to help the agriculture and forestry sectors adapt and respond to climate change. 
Funded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s existing Sustainable Land Management and Climate …

Ottawa will be taking a close look at the economic impacts of a changing climate in Canada, making it the third country – after the UK and Australia – to fund such research.
“While such studies …