Climate change may have "huge impact" on China, reducing crop yields, harming the environment, warns country's top weather scientist

THIS year, New York City had the coldest winter in decades. The US National Weather Service informed that in February 2015 the average temperature was 24.1 degrees Fahrenheit, which is the highest in 80 years.

International Energy Agency's data shows the growth in global carbon emissions stalled last year

EUROPE has a strong tradition as a leader in the fight against climate change. Lately, however, the continent has reached an ideological impasse over how to address the problem, with environmental sustainability and growth often portrayed as being mutually exclusive. If Europe is to remain an environmental leader, as well as a center of innovation and competitiveness, it will have to abandon its ideological rigidness and embrace realistic, pragmatic solutions that can deliver environmental benefits without sacrificing economic development.