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£22bn emergency fund to protect rainforests

Britain is to give hundreds of millions to cut the deforestation rate, via a fund that will start work before a UN scheme

Women do less to cause the problem

Women are more ecologically responsible than men but they suffer more from the effects of global warming

Birth control: best way to cut greenhouse gas

A UN report says that preventing 1 billion births by 2050 would save as much carbon dioxide as 2 million wind turbines

Poor countries tip global emissions balance

Total emissions from burning fossil fuels in developing countries have more than doubled since 1990 and are continuing to rise

Large wind turbines ‘won’t need planning’

Housing minister John Healey issues radical proposals allowing renewable energy measures to bypass existing regulations

Obama wants immediate start on emissions

The US President’s talks with his Chinese counterpart have led to both aiming for significant action on climate change

Climate change catastrophe took just months

Six months is all it took to flip Europe’s climate from warm and sunny into the last ice age, researchers have found

Global warming threatens to rob Italy of pasta

Scientists will warn that Italy may be forced to import the basic ingredients for pasta because of climate change

Life in UK proves fatal to reindeer

Reindeer imported for Santa’s grottoes die after exposure to diseases from British farm animals, government vet warns

Why I wanted to be a jungle vet

A world-renowned animal rescue centre in India is safeguarding some of the planet’s most endangered species

Melting snow shrinks Mont Blanc

The volume of snow and ice coating the summit of Mont Blanc, Western Europe's tallest mounting, has fallen by a tenth

Is the idea of carbon trading just hot air?

It's touted as a cost-effective way to cut dangerous emissions but does carbon trading practice live up to the theory?

The big picture: China’s shoots of hope

Woods are spreading over hills around Yan'an, the city where Chairman Mao lived. Here are the facts about reforestation

Outlook is hazy for emissions labels

Knowing the carbon footprint of the goods that we buy isn’t enough to turn us into greener consumers

Farmers to go green or lose state payouts

The Government has set targets requiring the number of arable fields in environmental schemes to double in three years

One in five mammals threatened with extinction

Annual list shows a third of amphibians and reptiles are in danger

How a Moon can make a rainbow of its own

Photograph taken in North Yorkshire demonstrates it is not just sunlight that can reflect the colours of the rainbow

Alarm over developer links to Prince's charity

Scotia Homes pays the charity to prepare plans for new communities that involve building on greenfield sites and disrupting ecosystems

‘I don’t want squirrels to lose their homes’

A child of 12 is among 164 people who have written objections to Prince Charles’s proposed development near Aberdeen

Undersea volcano where fish stand on tails

A robotic probe discovers extraordinary deep-sea life on a volcano off Morocco that has been active in the past 10,000 years

Harrier ‘near extinction in England’

Study finds that the hen harrier, one of the country’s rarest birds of prey, could be in danger of disappearing from England

Barbecue autumn to end with gales and rain

One unexpectedly dry, warm month is not a sign of climate change, but it does fit a worrying pattern that must be man-made