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Adverse wind conditions due to global warming will reduce the frequency of tropical cyclones, but may form stronger ones, researchers warn.

Scientists say that atmospheric models must be updated to incorporate the effects of brown carbon particles.

Conversion to croplands in East Africa, fuelled by climate change, will contribute greatly to global warming, predict scientists.

Heavy rainfall associated with a warming climate is occurring at a higher rate than current climate models predict, scientists have found.

Experts at an international wetlands conference have called for recognition of the importance of wetlands and more basic research.

Glacier experts say climate change has caused north Peru's mountain glaciers to recede by 26 per cent in the last 33 years.

G8 countries should step up efforts to combat climate change with the establishment of carbon capture and storage technology, say scientists.

A new review of published studies finds most reported changes in ecosystems can be attributed to climate change.

Scientists in the Himalayan region have met to discuss collaboration on monitoring glacial retreat in the region.

Researchers say black carbon emissions contribute more to global warming than previously thought.

Climate change will cause major agricultural losses in the Middle East and North Africa, warns the UN.

Scientists predict that China's warming climate could put a large additional area at risk from schistosomiasis by 2050.

Scientists at the UN climate-change conference in Bali say greenhouse gas emissions must start declining within the next 10–­15 years.

Tackling deforestation can contribute positively to climate change, but effects on poor forest communities must be considered, says a report.

The use of fertilizers could cancel out biofuels' reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, says an international research team.

A new study has found that carbon dioxide emission rates are growing and implicates economic growth in developing nations.

Slowing tropical deforestation is a vital and cheap way of reducing carbon emissions and countering climate change, says a new report.

The effect of global warming on vegetation will turn 18 per cent of the Amazon rainforest into savannah by 2099, say researchers.

Scientists have developed a tool to measure greenhouse gases at a regional level, which could help evaluate carbon reduction initiatives.

Soil may not be the carbon sink it is thought to be and actually releases carbon dioxide in high-carbon atmospheres, say researchers.