High in the mountains of Veracruz, Mexico, a small cooperative is "farming carbon" — practicing agriculture in a way that fights climate change while simultaneously meeting human needs. Although these practices are used by millions of people around the world in some way, people in Western nations are largely unfamiliar with them, and there is little coordinated support to encourage farmers to adopt them. But if supported, implemented and developed on a global scale in conjunc

Some years ago a friend of mine, Professor Euan Nisbet, was working on atmospheric science in the UK but comes from Mberengwa in Zimbabwe; he wrote to me and warned that Zimbabwe was likely to be one of the most affected countries in the world by climate changes caused by rising temperatures. He later said that it looked as if the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) would shift northwards. This year we have had an exceptional El Nino with high sea temperatures in the north

On the opening day of the United Nations climate summit in Paris, as a seemingly never-ending array of world leaders lined up to strike the right positive mood music ahead of two weeks of intense negotiating, it was President Anote Tong of Kiribati who spoke for Bangladesh, not the country's own absent premier Sheikh Hasina. In his address, the leader of the small central Pacific island thanked Fiji for agreeing to take in Kiribati's population of just over 100,000 people in

By Shelby Lin Erdman The first ten months of 2014 have been the hottest since record keeping began more than 130 years ago, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That may be hard to believe for people in places like Buffalo, New York, which saw a record early snowfall this year. But NOAA says, despite the early bitter cold across parts of the United States in recent weeks, it's been a hot year so far for the Earth. http://edition.cnn.com/