The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Brendan Smith TD, has called for a "joined-up" approach by the international community to the twin challenges of fighting hunger and dealing with climate change.

Hundreds of millions of pounds worth of commercial real estate along Belfast’s shoreline could be hit by regular flooding by the end of this century.

NTR plc, the international renewable energy group, has announced the results of a survey of 130 senior business leaders of Fortune 500 companies on their attitudes towards climate change.

Large British businesses will spend over $5.3 billion on climate change initiatives in 2010, up eight percent on the previous year, according to a report by UK-based research firm Verdantix.

The high number of people who die in Ireland during the winter months - particularly as a result of respiratory disease and heart failure - may reduce thanks to global warming, an all-Ireland conference on the health implications of climate change has been told.

By tracking the long sea journey of a salmon from, say, a remote mountain stream in west Cork to distant Arctic seas, scientists can learn much about climate change.

Met Éireann has said that, while the rainfall which preceded November’s devastating floods in Cork could be expected to occur every 25 years, it could not be described as "extraordinary".

Weather groups around the world have agreed to collect more precise temperature data to try to improve climate change science.

Germany will host an extra session of UN climate talks in April, but it is too early to say if the world will agree a new treaty this year after falling short at a summit in Copenhagen in December, Denmark said.

Engineers are looking at ways of reversing global warming - not by lowering the carbon dioxide that causes it, but through 'geoengineering', literally changing the face of the Earth to shed heat.

Stop fretting about the dust that builds up in corners and on furniture - it may just be protecting you from climate change.

The Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) in cooperation with the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government (DEHLG) is inviting applications from suitably qualified experts for nomination as potential contributors to the fifth assessment reportfrom the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).