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Agriculture and how it can adapt to climate change should be given more attention at Copenhagen, a group of scientists has urged.

African countries lack data on the effect climate change will have on water supplies, scientists said at Africa Water Week.

Food production in China's Yangtze River Basin faces a dire future but new growing techniques could compensate.

Densely populated cities must use their financial clout to combine the fight for clean air with reducing carbon emissions, scientists say.

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.