For many people getting to throw their cap in the air is the best part of their graduation day, however for one student in America it may be one she’ll want to forget.

Global temperatures in 2015 are set to reach one degree centigrade above pre-industrial levels for the first time, scientists have warned.

WHAT a conundrum. What a bother. What a pickle and a palaver. Frankly, we need to talk about Kazuo.

The University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England, is home to one of Europe’s largest concentrations of researchers in the fields of environment, health and plant science.

BRITAIN: Store giant Asda has unveiled what it describes as the UK’s first sweet red onion, promising to rid shoppers of tears and bad breath after eating.

Faeces could be used to power a future generation of mobile phones, scientists have said.

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Oceans are vital to Earth-like life evolving on other planets, a new study has found.

Cannabis could be used to reduce tumour growth in cancer patients, scientists have said.

Climate change is already having an impact across the world in areas ranging from human health to agriculture and wildlife, a major international report has found.

Four new man-made gases which contribute to the destruction of the ozone layer have been identified by scientists.

WITH rising temperatures, courtesy of greenhouse gas emissions, you might expect birds to linger on at migration time, taking an extra ‘sus beag’, before the arduous journey to far-off lands.

A writer with a first draft is like a sculptor with a block of stone: the story is inside.

Life on Earth will continue for up to 3bn years but humans will die out far sooner, scientists say.

BRAZIL: Brazilian women appy to track errant mates

Teagasc is partnering with the University of East Anglia in the €9m EU-funded Aquavalens project to improve the safety of European drinking water.

LAST week Nature Table (below) featured the ash tree but only days later the news broke that a deadly ash disease had been detected in Ireland.

Behind every suicide and attempted suicide caused by the economic crisis are thousands of hidden cases of mental illness, writes Kate Kelland

It's official - the world is slowly getting warmer.

THIS year could become one of the top 10 hottest since 1850, with global temperatures expected to be almost half a degree celsius warmer in 2012 than the long-term (1961-1990)average of 14 degrees, the British Met Office said.

THE new release of emails from the university involved in the “climategate” row just show the “frank and honest discussions” that go on between scientists, the researcher at the centre of the debate said.

Thousands more emails from the university at the centre of the “climategate” row over global warming science two years ago appear to have been posted online today.

LIFE in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study shows.

A WHACKING 15,000 delegates descended on Cancun at the weekend. Expectations were not high. The problem for those seeking the Holy Grail of a deal to “save the planet” was that the climate change debate has changed.

THE international body set up to study global warming needs major changes in the way it is run following a series of high-profile mistakes, a report said yesterday.

A SERIES of studies shows the world is “unequivocally” warming, scientists said yesterday as they confirmed the past decade was the hottest on record.

Ministers and scientists unveiled a Google Earth map today showing potential impacts of global temperature rises of 4C, as they acknowledged the need to rebuild public trust in climate science.

EMAILS stolen from one of the world’s leading climate change research centres contained no evidence to undermine the case for manmade global warming, a report found yesterday.

The UN body on climate change, accused of ignoring critics and allowing glaring errors into its work, today declared a broader range of experts will write its next report on global warming.

THE global warming crisis is now being rebranded as a climate change crisis because it seems that instead of getting warmer, we may actually be getting colder.

AS the Taoiseach prepares to leave for Copenhagen, we are told there are only a few hours left in which to save the planet. For all that is at stake though — entire nations vanishing and millions losing their homes to rising seas — I suspect the read-out from the conference-of-all-conferences will be rather less intently followed than, say, last week’s budget or even the X Factor result, come to think of it.

BRITAIN’S Met Office yesterday released temperature records from more than 1,500 climate monitoring stations around the world in the latest efforts to debunk claims by sceptics that global warming data was manipulated by scientists.

THE largest and most important UN climate change conference in history opened yesterday, with organisers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the last, best chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.

THE WORLD is entering talks on a new climate pact with unprecedented unity and leaders must seize the moment to create a turning point in the battle against global warming, the UN’s top climate official said yesterday.

AN independent review will investigate the allegations made by climate change “sceptics” that a series of stolen emails showed scientists were manipulating data, the university at the centre of the row said yesterday.

A leading climate change scientist said today that hackers breaking into a university’s computer server and then posting documents online showed the "nasty politics of global warming".

SCIENTISTS are looking for women willing to eat chocolate every day for a year.

INHALERS prescribed for a serious lung disease could cause heart attacks, according to research.

A brewer has launched what it claims is the UK’s first carbon-neutral beer.

MORE than 200 leading climate scientists yesterday called for urgent cuts in greenhouse gases, with reductions of at least 50% by 2050.