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A study challenges the method used to estimate carbon transport by phytoplankton to the deep sea.

Recently revisited as a quick fix for global warming, 'geoengineering' could rapidly cool the climate but might also play havoc with the planet. Hannah Hoag reports.

Scientists claim to have located the 'missing carbon sink' in tropical forests that are absorbing around one billion tonnes more carbon than previously thought. Jane Burgermeister investigates.

Wind-blown dust from the Southwest US is shortening seasonal snow cover in Colorado's ski resorts.

Companies worldwide are now competing to cut their carbon emissions, but is this trend one of environmental concern, hard-headed business or careful PR? Kurt Kleiner investigates.

How central is imagination to our understanding of climate change?

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assesses the skill of climate models by their ability to reproduce warming over the twentieth century, but in doing so may give a false sense of their predictive capability.

We need to cut fossil fuel use in the developed world by 90% to stop dangerous climate change, argues George Monbiot.

Stormy debates continue between scientists over the evidence linking hurricanes to global warming as the Atlantic hurricane season gets underway.