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• End of the road for Copenhagen? - Premium content

  Expectations are dropping as December's UN climate talks get closer.

  10 November 2009

• Brazil mulls major climate action - Premium content

  If adopted, the move would put the country ahead of other developing nations on emissions curbs.

  02 November 2009

• Ozone protocol squares up to climate - Premium content

  Europeans back efforts to amend the Montreal Protocol to address global warming.

  28 October 2009

• Time running out for climate talks

  Rift between developed and developing nations might be too great.

  21 October 2009

• Climate talks stumble in Bangkok - Premium content

  UN negotiators clash over how to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.

  09 October 2009

• US Senate gears up for climate debate - Premium content

  Cap-and-trade bill largely mirrors legislation passed in the House of Representatives.

  01 October 2009

• Instant climate model gears up

  Simulation tool gives rapid feedback on implications of policy changes.

  29 September 2009

• Climate summit fails to address key challenges

  Lack of progress threatens global deal.

  23 September 2009

• North American coalition pushes for refrigerant curb - Premium content

  Greenhouse gases closer to Montreal Protocol regulation.

  16 September 2009

• Obama proposes greenhouse-gas standards for vehicles - Premium content

  US move is the first national regulation on carbon emissions.

  15 September 2009

• Climate: Counting carbon in the Amazon

  If the next climate treaty tackles deforestation, tropical nations will need to monitor the biomass of their forests. One ecologist has worked out a way to do that from the sky, finds Jeff Tollefson.

  21 October 2009

• Atmospheric science: Climate's smoky spectre - Premium content

  With their focus on greenhouse gases, atmospheric scientists have largely overlooked lowly soot particles. But black carbon is now a hot topic among researchers and politicians. Jeff Tollefson investigates.

  01 July 2009

• Car industry: Charging up the future

  A new generation of lithium-ion batteries, coupled with rising oil prices and the need to address climate change, has sparked a global race to electrify transportation. Jeff Tollefson investigates.

  26 November 2008

• US election: Agencies of change - Premium content

  A new president could bring radical shifts to America's major research entities. Nature profiles some of the agencies in need of a makeover.

  24 September 2008

• Energy alternatives: Electricity without carbon - Premium content

  13 August 2008

• China: Stoking the fire

  China burns more coal than any other country; how it does so in the future will determine our planet's climate. Jeff Tollefson reports from Beijing.

  23 July 2008

• Energy: Not your father's biofuels - Premium content

  If biofuels are to help the fight against climate change, they have to be made from more appropriate materials and in better ways. Jeff Tollefson asks what innovation can do to improve the outlook.

  20 February 2008

• Climate politics: Beyond Bush - Premium content

  The next US president could lead the country into meaningful action on controlling greenhousegas emissions, but only if he, or she, can seize the moment. Jeff Tollefson reports.

  14 November 2007

• Climate politics: The first cut - Premium content

  For the first time, the US Congress has begun crafting comprehensive legislation to tackle global warming. Naturebrought together five experts with various backgrounds to discuss the current political climate as the United States moves towards mandatory emissions caps. A full transcript of this discussion can be downloaded here .

  14 November 2007