Choking China: The struggle to clear Beijing's air
As pollution levels return to normal in China's capital after a record-breaking month of smog, what can be done to banish the smog?
New Scientist
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New map pinpoints cities to avoid as sea levels rise
Sydney, Tokyo and Buenos Aires are in for some of the biggest sea-level rises by 2100, finds one of the most comprehensive predictions to date.
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Sooty ships may be geoengineering by accident
Oil-burning ships are fertilising the north Pacific with iron – inadvertently putting a proposed geoengineering idea into practice.
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Climate change blamed for Australia's extreme weather
The east coast of Australia has been drenched by floods and torrential rains, even as recent bush fires affecting much of the country continued to burn. Four people are known to have died as Australians
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How Obama will deliver his climate promise
Barack Obama is certainly talking the talk on climate change - promising to put the fight against global warming at the heart of his second term. What's more surprising is that the US - historically, the
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Social whodunnit competition launches in India
An experiment by Microsoft Research aims to see how people will interact to solve a puzzle that relies on teamwork and cellphones.
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Texas mega-battery aims to green up the grid
In a remote corner of west Texas, in the shadow of a sprawling wind farm, one of the world's largest batteries was switched on last week. Deep in oil country, the battery is at the vanguard of efforts
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Greenland loses ice in fits and starts
The surge of ice loss from Greenland between 2005 and 2010, which drove up sea levels around the world, was not unprecedented. A similar spurt happened in the late 1980s, and possibly decades earlier as
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Missing Congolese gorillas found in rebel-held region
Some of the gorillas caught in the midst of fighting within the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been located. Dozens more remain missing.
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Power struggle: How to keep India's lights on
For many in India, when the largest blackout the world has ever seen struck last week, it didn't come as a surprise. Smaller, scheduled blackouts are a common way that the country copes with its explosive