Climate 'could devastate crops'
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South Asia and southern Africa may be hardest hit by climate change-related food shortages by 2030.
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Gordon Brown says climate change means the industrial world must plan for more extreme weather.
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A U.S. scientist says climate change is producing increasing drought conditions but the nation is doing little to prepare for potential catastrophe.
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Climate change may carry a higher risk of flooding than was previously thought, the journal Nature reports.
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Reports released this week offer evidence of climate change's impact: Plants and animals are dying and showing up in places they shouldn't, the Arctic is heating rapidly and sea levels are rising. By Stephen Leahy.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: Synthetic biologists say their technology could tackle climate change and feed the hungry, but its dangers are terrifying.
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Extreme rains, interspersed with droughts, could spell disaster for the country's agriculture-based economy, according to research spanning five decades of data.
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The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.
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Fears mounted on Monday that downpours  which have killed dozens in Africa, uprooted hundreds of  thousands and devastated crops could continue past the end of  the rainy season and hit areas that have so far escaped floods.
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Australia's drought-hit farmers must embrace change to cope with climate change, including considering the increased use of genetically modified crops, Agriculture Minister Tony Burke said Thursday.
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A huge mountain glacier in the Andes could disappear in five years as a result of climate change, an academic warns.
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Wilting heat, deadly storms, flash floods, coastal erosion, more days with unhealthy air &#151; those are just some of the effects of rising temperatures on the Northeast, a group of scientists reported Wednesday. They urged governments and citizens to take steps now to avoid the most devastating consequences of global warming.
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Climatic change is "very likely" down to human activities, the global body on climate science will say.
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An international panel of climate scientists said yesterday that there is an overwhelming probability that human activities are warming the planet at a dangerous rate, with consequences that could soon take decades or centuries to reverse.
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Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by climate catastrophes.
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Global warming could cut a swathe through the planet's species over the coming centuries, warns a study released Wednesday that shows a link between rising temperatures and mass extinctions reaching back half a billion years.
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Fears mounted on Monday that downpours which have killed dozens in Africa, uprooted hundreds of thousands and devastated crops could continue past the end of the rainy season and hit areas that have so far escaped floods.