Sea-level rise and melting polar ice sheets may not cause a climate catastrophe, but they will certainly change weather patterns unpredictably
Read article: Melting polar ice sheets will alter weather
Policy could offset greater yield variability due to climate change
Read article: Importing maize stabilizes prices at home
$200,000 award goes to Michael Mann and Warren Washington
Read article: Climate scientists share Tyler Prize
Reflected sunlight tells a story: one of deeper shading in an ever-warmer ocean. That is because climate change will also alter green growth in the high seas
Read article: Food webs alter as warmer seas change colour
Heat extremes harm harvests. So do floods, drought and high winds. Climate change spurs food shocks that threaten the supper table
Read article: Food shocks increase as world warms
Fastest-growing trees in boreal forest show biggest decline in lifetime
Read article: Trees dying younger in Canada too
Greenhouse emissions from forest clearance to grow feedstock could mean 20-year carbon payback time
Read article: How sustainable are bioplastics?
Climate change, urbanization and rising population likely to intensify human exposure to lightning
Read article: Increased lightning hazard ‘almost guarantee’
Global coffee harvests, which provide the drink of choice for millions and the livelihoods of many more, are in peril, not least from rising temperatures
Read article: Coffee harvests face risk from rising heat
Unexpected “teleconnections” across the equator have also been observed
Read article: Extreme rainfall events can be correlated over thousands of kilometres, study reveals
