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The UK Government's decision to allow a third runway at Heathrow Airport makes a mockery of politician's claims that they are serious about climate change. At first test the UK Government has succumbed to the lobbying power of the aviation industry and reverted to policies of 'concrete and calamity.'

It seems that scientists have systematically underestimated just how delicate the balance of the planet's physical systems really is. Solving the climate crisis is no longer an option - the only question now is whether we're going to hold off catastrophe, says Bill McKibben.

Current approaches to deal with climate change are ineffectual, one of the world's top climate scientists said in a personal new year appeal to Barack Obama and his wife Michelle on the urgent need to tackle global warming. Reported by James Randerson.

Environmental consciousness is providing American political leaders with the unprecedented opportunity to place the consumption question on the national agenda. Here's how government can help curb America's seemingly endless appetite for 'more', says David Villano.

Solving the climate crisis cannot be treated like a wage deal, with the demands of each side balanced somewhere in the middle. Speed is of the essence in transitioning to a post-carbon economy as quickly as humanly possible - we cannot wait for the market to build a sustainable society, argues David Spratt.

South Asia has been identified as a climate change 'hotspot' as an increase in drought, flooding, and cyclones are expected in the coming decades, according to a new report CARE International and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

A new U.N. study on climate change reveals that 2008 is likely to rank as the 10th warmest year on record since the beginning of the instrumental climate records in 1850, according to data sources compiled by the World Meteorological Organization, reports Haider Rizvi.