A new study calculates that by 2050, groundwater pumping will cause a global sea level rise of about 0.8 mm per year.

Scientists from 15 countries are calling for a better political response to the provision of water and energy to meet the challenge of feeding a world of 9 billion people within 30 years.

Researchers have found vast groundwater reserves in the Sahara, one of the driest places on earth, that could help buffer climate change effects for years.

BERLIN – Much of the CO2 was hidden in the ocean, which explains its low atmosphere concentration during the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago, researchers say.

LONDON – The world is close to reaching tipping points that will make it irreversibly hotter, making this decade critical in efforts to contain global warming, scientists warned on Monday.

WASHINGTON – The United States on Tuesday set the first national standards on carbon emissions from power plants, taking aim at the burning of coal, which is considered a top culprit in climate change.

Washington – Scientists and planners taking the help of technology to mitigate the effects of climate change may find it too inadequate to help, warns an expert.

BRUSSELS – EU governments will have to record changes to forestry and farmland that alter the carbon balance under draft law published on Monday, as the European Commission presses ahead with new rules against greenhouse emissions.

SINGAPORE – Australia, one of the world’s top mining and agricultural nations, faces a quickening pace of climate change, according to a snapshot of the nation’s weather, forcing farmers to alter cropping strategies and miners to cope with more intense floods.

SYDNEY- In the pristine frozen continent of Antarctica scientists fear an alien invasion – not from outer space, but carried in people’s pockets and bags.