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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.

Scientists and farmers from Peru and Ethiopia will defend agrobiodiversity through the exchange of scientific and traditional knowledge.

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

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

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

Mexican urban workers will be the most affected in Latin America, say researchers.

The African Union looks set to demand US$67 billion a year for technology transfer, training of scientists and data collection.

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

Combining ancestral practices and new technologies, a Colombian island is fighting climate change by harvesting rainwater.

India has said that it will not agree to emission reduction targets, given that it has among the lowest emissions per capita.

As African nations heat up, many could use maize varieties cultivated in hotter nations. Not so for a band of countries in the Sahel.

Bangladeshi scientists have used climate modelling to show that global warming will halve rice yields over the next 60 years.

Scientists have shown that the Indian summer monsoon is weakening, which could have adverse impacts on agriculture.

Predicting monsoons will be harder because of global warming — and scientists say they will need better weather models.

A simplified model shows that the world's total carbon output since the industrial revolution must reach no more than a trillion tonnes.

Scientists in India have harnessed a sophisticated computing technique to create an improved groundwater forecasting model.

Scientists have found that global warming could affect coconut production through changes in fruit formation and nut development.

Sea levels are now predicted to rise above previously predicted maximums, hitting developing countries hard.

The Amazon rainforest is surprisingly sensitive to drought, researchers have found, which could threaten its role as a carbon sink.