Greta Thunberg called on the global energy industry and its financiers to end all fossil fuel investments on Thursday at a high-profile meeting in Davos with the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA).

In central Africa a giant slab of carbon-rich peat land, discovered by a team of British and Congolese scientists, is under threat from oil companies and farming. The carbon must be kept in the ground to avoid accelerating climate change, but some plots...

Wildfires, drought, melting glaciers - the impact of climate change is clear to see. But what about the impact on our oceans? They’re undergoing serious change: sea temperatures are rising - leading to a dangerous increase in ocean acidity.