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Victims survey the wreckage after a flood in Germany, climate events like this will be more common thanks to global heating

Vital indicators of climate change broke all previous records in 2021

An overly tall bench installed on the river bank in Copenhagen

Denmark has built weirdly tall benches as a warning - but what is it?

Shanghai is located on the coast of the East China Sea between the mouth of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) to the north and the bay of Hangzhou to the south.

China sets new record for rising sea levels, how will its cities cope?

Flames from the Morton Fire consume a home near Bundanoon, Australia in 2020.

Climate change could soon make 1 in 25 Australian homes uninsurable

A view of the edge of northeastern coastal village of Happisburgh, in Norfolk, England.

This medieval UK village is about to be lost due to climate change

Global average temperatures have changed over the years.

Extreme weather explained: What actually is climate change?

Coral has been observed in the bleaching process.

Coral bleaching process caught on camera for the first time

All 200 inhabited islands of the Maldives could be submerged by the year 2100, say climate change experts

The tourism paradox: Is the Maldives facing an existential crisis?

18/01/2022

Is Venice sinking?

Will Venice survive climate change?

15/01/2022

A 4 km long seawall is being built to protect South Manhattan.

New York could be underwater by 2050. But the city has a plan

15/12/2021

In north Wales, residents in the small village of Fairbourne face being the UK's first 'climate refugees'

‘A human catastrophe’: The UK’s first climate refugees refuse to leave

29/11/2021

A protester holds a banner displaying a "1.5 degree" slogan during a climate change demonstration outside of the COP26.

What does the final COP26 agreement really mean for climate change?

16/11/2021

A large melt pool forms in the Ilulissat ice fjord below the Jakobshavn Glacier, at the fringe of the vast Greenland ice sheet.

Ice on the edge of survival: How global warming is changing the Arctic

06/11/2021

Ice in Antarctica

‘Glue’ that holds icebergs together is melting in Antarctica

17/10/2021

San Francisco

Why are our cities sinking and what does this mean for the future?

16/02/2021

A Spanish Shawl nudibranch, also known as a Flabellina iodinea.

A census of sea slugs is helping scientists to track climate change

15/02/2021

The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite Orbits Earth (Illustration)

NASA launches new satellite to monitor rising sea levels

06/11/2020

There are 20 per cent more emperor penguin colonies in Antartica than previously thought.

New penguin colonies in Antarctica spotted by satellites in space

05/08/2020