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Switch to green energy and cut down on meat

Governments must switch from fossil fuels to nuclear, wind and solar energy to avoid a global warming catastrophe in a move costing about 300 billion ($578 billion) a year.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: End may be in sight for fossil fuels

Solar power has won the global argument. Photovoltaic energy is already so cheap that it competes with oil, diesel and liquefied natural gas in much of Asia without subsidies.

Tom Chivers: How to get it wrong on climate change and weather

'He's utterly misunderstood the issue.' Tom Chivers, the Telegraph's Environment writer, gets fired up about a review of a new book on global warming.

Charles Moore: Game is up for climate change believers

The game is up for climate change believers, writes Charles Moore after reading a new book: The Age of Global Warming, by Rupert Darwall.

Paul Little: Reality - humans are to blame

To deny the reality of climate change and the need to do something about it is to ally oneself with the witch burners, cancer cure peddlers and purveyors of cars that run on water.

Gywnne Dyer: World's grim future warm and hungry

If you want to go on eating regularly in a rapidly warming world, live in a place that's high in latitude or high in altitude.

Editorial: Climate report a wake-up call for global action

Over the past few years, many people's apprehensions about climate change have decreased.

Look on bright side of climate change

UN scientist says that by staying positive about the future, the most intelligent students will be attracted to finding a solution to save the world.

How climate change will alter your life

The huge impact of climate change will soon be laid bare when the UN publishes its most authoritative account into the likely misery from unchecked global warming.

The end is nigh, says Nasa

Modern civilisation is heading for collapse within a matter of decades, according to a scientific study funded by Nasa.

Using the past to predict future lava flows

A look into how some of New Zealand's biggest volcanoes erupted hundreds of years ago could help predict lava flows for future eruptions.

How climate change ended world's first great civilisations

The world's first great civilisations appear to have collapsed because of an ancient episode of climate change – according to new research carried out by scientists and archaeologists.

New row over spoil dumping near reef

New controversy has erupted around the decision to allow 3 million tonnes of dredge spoil to be dumped near the fragile Great Barrier Reef.

Lawsuit over China's smog

Aman from China's pollution-choked north has become the first person to attempt to sue the Government for failing to protect its citizens from the effects of toxic smog.

Coal: rise or fall?

Global warming 'pause' link

The impact of volcanic eruptions on global warming could provide a new explanation for the so-called “pause” used by sceptics to deny climate change, scientists say.