In the darkness of their burrows, the puffin chicks starve to death while food lies decomposing in front of them. Shunned even by predators, they are left to decay atop the cliffs of St Kilda - the latest victims of climate change.

Microbes frozen in the oldest ice on Earth have been thawed out and brought back to life in the laboratory. The results not only provide new insights into how long creatures can remain frozen, they also raise prospects of missing old genes with current genes as climate change melts ancient ice.

The world this year has ­suffered record-breaking weather extremes in almost every continent, the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organisation has warned, with global land temperatures reaching their highest levels since records began in 1800.

After melting the samples that were 100,000 and 8 million years old, the researchers found signs of live bacteria in the water from both.

Low-efficiency cars could be hit with a congestion charge under tough new measures announced by London mayor Ken Livingstone.

New Jersey businesses studying the impact of the new state law designed to combat global warming fear it could cost them more than a little green.

The year has already experienced a range of weather extremes that the UN World Meteorological Organization said is well outside the historical norm and is a precursor of much greater weather variability as global warming transforms the planet.

The emerging rapprochement between American evangelicals and US environmental groups is regarded by some as a sign of how dramatically US public sentiment has shifted on global warming in recent years.

Trees in the Sierra Nevada are dying at a rate nearly double that of two decades ago, and scientists say global warming is likely to blame.

Floods in Asia, a cyclone in the Middle East and extreme temperatures around the globe since the start of the year have borne out warnings made by a key climate change report, an expert with the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday.

Global warming will likely hit food production in developing nations the hardest, increasing the risks of drought and famine in the countries that already struggle to feed their populations, a senior U.N. official said Tuesday.

Senior Japanese and US officials met Wednesday in Tokyo to discuss the fight against climate change amid moves to draft a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.

Much of the world has experienced record-breaking weather events this year, from flooding in Asia to heat waves in Europe and snowfall in South Africa, the United Nations weather agency said Tuesday.

Climate change is likely to give invasive species the edge over their indigenous counterparts, according to new research on tiny comma-like soil animals living on Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean.

Conifer trees in the Sierra Nevada are dying at nearly double the rate as they were two decades ago, stressed by hotter temperatures and lower precipitation, according to a study to be presented later this week.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo urged the two chambers of Congress on Tuesday to swiftly enact legislative measures addressing climate change while taking steps to prevent flooding and landslides.

Climate change might get some blame for South Asia's catastrophic floods, but government ineptitude has dramatically magnified the misery facing tens of millions of people in India, aid groups and experts say.

A dam around the Sydney Opera House and the destruction of Aboriginal sacred sites are two extreme scenarios to be raised this week by experts assessing the impact of rising sea levels on Australian heritage sites.

Americans and Europeans are buying seaside summer homes on Canada's rock-ribbed Newfoundland coast for the price of a used SUV, taking advantage of the area's warming climate and struggling economy.

As they prepare for their annual meeting this week in New Brunswick, the premiers of Canada's provinces and territories say they are feeling the heat from a public increasingly anxious about the effects of climate change.