The United Nations’ leading climate change expert said Group of Eight nations had “clearly ignored” taking any concrete action to accomplish his panel’s new goal of limiting climate change.

CLOUD formation, sea level rises and extreme weather events are among areas set to get more attention in the next UN report on global warming due in 2014, the head of the Nobel Peace Prize winning panel has said.

IT’S everyone’s worst nightmare. You invite a group of friends over for a bite to eat and just as you’re all about to tuck in to a delicious dinner of smoked salmon and lamb cutlets, your old college pal’s latest girlfriend announces she’s a vegan.

INDIA’S Tata Motors yesterday unveiled its $2,500 (€1,695) car, an ultra-cheap price tag that brings car ownership into the reach of tens of millions of people.

Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today and called on humanity to mobilise at once against the dangers of a changing climate.

Al Gore and the UN climate panel’s chief scientist will accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway today for sounding the alarm over what the former US vice president called the “planetary emergency” of global warming.

Human-caused global warming is visible in the air, water and melting ice and destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative world report will warn.

UP and down the icy spine of South America, the glaciers are melting, the white mantle of the Andes Mountains washing away at an ever faster rate.