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National targets give virtually no chance of constraining warming to 2 °C and no chance of protecting coral reefs.

New research highlights the need for climate refugees to be considered in ongoing policy negotiations. Anna Barnett reports.

Efforts to help the rural poor adapt to climate change should bolster resilience to natural disasters and climate variability rather than focusing on specific impacts.

An oft-forgotten source of food security and livelihoods, fisheries must be included in ongoing discussions of how the world’s most vulnerable can adapt to climate change.

Enthusiasts say that biochar could go a long way towards mitigating climate change and bring with it a host of ancillary benefits. But others fear it could do more harm than good. Kurt Kleiner reports.

Climate change represents the biggest health threat of the twenty-first century, according to a new report published 16 May in The Lancet. Olive Heffernan talks to lead investigator Anthony Costello, director of the Institute for Global Health at University College London.

Words matter as much as images in communicating climate change.

Emissions targets must be placed in the context of a cumulative carbon budget if we are to avoid dangerous climate change.

Gauging how the planet will respond to rising emissions remains one of the biggest questions in climate science. Mason Inman looks at how close we are to answering it.