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  • The notion that we're running out of fossil fuel is gaining support in some unexpected quarters. But is peak energy good or bad news for the climate? Kurt Kleiner reports.

    • Kurt Kleiner
    Feature
  • Will future generations condemn our sluggish response to climate change?

    • Anna Barnett
    Books & Arts
  • Can climate science help to feed the world? It's all about speaking the right language, finds Ken Kostel.

    • Ken Kostel
    News Feature
  • The new Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at the London School of Economics and the University of Leeds launches 27 January. Andrew Gouldson — who will co-direct the centre with Judith Rees, under chairman Lord Nicholas Stern — argues that researchers should be zooming in on regional change and talking to local stakeholders while the world makes the push for a global climate deal. Interview by Anna Barnett.

    • Anna Barnett
    Q&A
  • A layman's guide to climate economics leaves the average reader unable to distinguish mainstream theory from heterodoxy.

    • Yoram Bauman
    Books & Arts
  • Threatened with encroaching seas, dwindling water supplies and fiercer storms, Bangladesh is already suffering the ill effects of rising global greenhouse gas emissions. Mason Inman reports on how the region is coping with climate change.

    • Mason Inman
    Feature