Climate summit starts with Trump-shaped hole and praise for China

The biggest climate meeting of the year opened in Brazil on Monday aiming to bring countries together, amid a difficult global backdrop of backlash to climate policies in Europe and an absent United States.

Have the COP climate summits actually achieved anything? Here are the numbers

It's been three decades of COP talks - and as most of the climate metrics get worse, questions about whether the summits are working have become impossible to ignore.

'If we die, we all die together': Trump urged to involve US in the fight against climate change

Former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has urged Donald Trump to return to global efforts to fight climate change.

DNA pioneer censured for offensive race remarks dies

US scientist James Watson, who co-discovered the double-helix shape of DNA, has died aged 97.

Why US may soon have a real energy emergency

Donald Trump declared a questionable "national energy emergency" when he entered the White House.

COP's potential for change limited not by who turned up, but by the elephants not in the room

The COP climate summit in Belem opened with a diplomatic double-whammy.


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