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Human lives can be saved when climate disaster prevention is part of international development aid.

Ecuador's president has called time on the Yasuní–ITT Initiative. Anna Petherick asks what the world can learn from it.

A well-organized global grassroots campaign for climate protection could eclipse the IPCC in political influence.

Climate protection advocacy can learn from the success of the International AIDS Conference in forging a powerful global movement of scientists, non-governmental organizations and civil society.

A substantial fraction of the terrestrial carbon sink, past and present, may be incorrectly attributed to environmental change rather than changes in forest management.

China has recently pushed for investments in large-scale coal-fuelled synthetic natural gas plants. The associated carbon emissions, water needs and wider environmental impacts are, however, mostly neglected and could lock the country into an unsustainable development path.

Lessons from addiction may help to transform our high-carbon lifestyle.

The effect of climate change on precipitation and flooding is of global concern.

Can subsidies for new nuclear power plants be justified as part of a low-carbon energy policy? Sonja van Renssen investigates.

Recent observed global warming is significantly less than that simulated by climate models. This difference might be explained by some combination of errors in external forcing, model response and internal climate variability.

Use of state-of-the-art statistical methods could substantially improve the quantification of uncertainty in assessments of climate change.

Lessons from the treatment of addiction may help to change peoples' awareness of nature.

The City of Los Angeles is nearly two thirds of the way towards its goal of generating a third of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020; cities around the world can glean valuable technical, economic and political lessons from its experience.