European nations must work together in order to adapt to climate change, a new report has said, although there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach.

There is already enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to lead to more floods and droughts over the next 25 years, the government’s chief scientist has said.

Legislators at all levels of government across the globe should take a “resilience-based approach” to plan for climate change, the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) has urged.

Researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton have found that greenhouse gas concentrations similar to the present (almost 400 parts per million) were systematically associated with sea levels at least nine metres above current levels

The world is"barreling down" a path to heat up by 4 degrees at the end of the century if the global community fails to act on climate change, triggering a cascade of cataclysmic changes that include extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks and a sea-level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people, according to a new scientific report commissioned by the World Bank.

This year's dismal UK summer could be part of a run of poor summers caused by a major warming of the North Atlantic Ocean that occurred back in the 1990s, according to new research.

The European Commission (EC) has identified a green economy as a key opportunity for a ‘job-rich’ recovery in Europe in proposals announced yesterday (18 April), with future water challenges helping job creation.

A new international report, published today by Foresight, reveals that the major challenges associated with migration and environmental change have been underestimated.

By focusing solely on those that might leave vulnerable areas, the report says there is a risk of neglecting both the people who will be ‘trapped’ and those that will actually move towards danger.

Arctic sea ice extent appears to have reached its second lowest minimum since records began, according to the latest figures from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in the US.

Water industry regulator Ofwat has published its report to Defra on climate change adaptation.