The verdict is bleak: of 17,000 assessed species, over 7000 could become threatened with extinction because of climate change. Read the report (PDF) ...

Impacts of recent climate change have now been documented in all major regions of the world and in many natural and human systems. This is one key conclusion of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report ...

Could future maps give us a glimpse of what the world's population will look like in 2100? Experts are drawing up maps which can be used to predict the impact of climate change on the distribution ...