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China has reduced its sulphur dioxide emissions, but its failure to reduce nitrogen emissions could worsen acid rain in the country.

Japan and Nepal have announced that they will form a research partnership to study climate change related issues in the Himalayas.

A weather station network across South Asia is part of an India-led drive for locally produced climate change data.

Biofuels are neither a panacea nor a pariah, says a major UN report, but they must not be grown on productive cropland.

Local knowledge forms the backbone of a programme in Benin that aims to help farmers adapt to the effects of climate change.

Africa is starting to produce more food for its people by embracing farming technology, according to a new UN report.

Andean glaciers provide key information on the climate system and global warming, say scientists.

Crop yields will plummet and millions more children will go hungry unless agricultural practices adapt to climate change, warns a report.

A global energy research network would boost "bottom up" mitigation strategies, says the World Economic Forum

Scientists have urged the UN's desertification convention to unite research on land degradation and so convince policymakers to take action.

The Caribbean islands have vowed to be resolute and vigilant about climate change in a new regional agreement.

Global warming may affect the central Pacific El Niño, increasing its occurrence and leading to severe droughts in India.

River deltas across the world are sinking, leaving millions of people exposed to the risk of severe flooding.

Poor countries can continue to develop while curbing climate change, by pursuing 'climate-smart' technologies, says the World Bank.

In a bizarre paradox, Himalayan glaciers expanded in size during a warm period 9,000 years ago, researchers have found.

Newly-developed climate models have dismissed predictions of extreme greenhouse gas emissions for India.

A warning about the risk that freshwater in the Atlantic poses to the monsoon comes with a call for better climate modelling.

Coffee output could be hit hard by climate change, researchers warn, because the crop's main pest adapts so well to temperature changes.

A new report has indicated that text messaging could play a vital role in an early warning system for natural disasters in the Maldives.

US$200–300 million will be required to implement measures against climate change in Peru, says a government study.