Look: an animated map shows what Earth would look like if all the ice melted

Sea levels have been rising at a greater rate year after year.

We visited Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise while it docked in Cape Town. We found parsley in the bathroom, guitars hanging from the ceiling and a CrossFit challenge leader board.

On 20 October it sets sail on an expedition to document Tristan lobsters and to recover...

Scientists are trying to 'bribe' South African penguins with sexy decoys and enticing bird calls

A safe new colony has been set up for penguins - but now they have to be convinced to...

Climate change has a bright side too: How SA plans to put a positive spin on global warming

South Africa's draft National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy is just about ready to...

Winter in Australia will disappear by 2050, new research claims

A "new summer" with sustained temperature peaks sometimes well above 40ºC will become...

Scientists think a giant artificial wall propped up under Antarctica's ice sheets could stop catastrophic sea-level rise

If the sheets of ice sitting atop Antarctica and Greenland were to collapse, the rates of...

This week in 1912, a newspaper printed a spot-on warning about our warming world. We're living in the future it predicted.

"Coal consumption affecting climate," read a small headline in a New Zealand newspaper...

Stunning pictures show the African savannah being taken over by trees and shrubs

Woody plants encroaching on grasslands means less land for cattle and wild herbivores...