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UK climate secretary to tell defence experts that conflict caused by climate change risks reversing the progress of civilisation Climate change will lead to an increased threat of wars, violence and military action against the UK, and risks reversing the progress of civilisation, the energy and climate secretary Chris Huhne will say on Thursday, in his strongest warning yet that the lack of progress on greenhouse gas emission cuts would damage the UK's national interests.

Devastating cyclones, floods, erosion and ruined crops have made Bangladeshis 'the most aware society on climate change in the world'

THE Peruvian highlands were hit hard by El Niño in 1982, and crops were destroyed. The same year, guerrilla attacks by the Shining Path movement erupted into a civil war that would last 20 years. Random coincidence? Possibly not.

Does a changing climate mean an increase in conflict and civil unrest around the world? Some of the world's military authorities believe it might - elements in the US armed forces hierarchy, for example, see climate change as a security issue for just that reason.

Gore evokes the Iraq war, credit crunch, civil rights and emancipation to argue the US electoral system is broken and only a mass movement can deliver reason on global warming

The climate debate rages on without progress, but a 'meeting of moderate minds' might be the answer

The British government has dealt a body blow to hopes of mitigating global warming by capturing greenhouse gases. But is it fatal? After months of speculation, the British government has set back the development of one of the most promising weapons in the war on climate change.