Dr Jim McQuaid from the University of Leeds is among the scientists who took to the skies in the world's largest airship for one of the most ambitious atmospheric experiments on television.
The first ecological study of an entire glacier has found that microbes drastically reduce surface reflectivity and therefore have an impact on the amount of sunlight that is reflected into space.
Reducing deforestation in the tropics would significantly cut the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere - by as much as one-fifth - research shows.
Three years of observations show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year - twice as much as when it was last surveyed.
A new study has shed light on the first step of cloud formation, revealing that organic oxides - such as the molecule responsible for giving pine forests their smell - are a vital ingredient.
Scientists have announced the findings of the first study on the connection between the El Niño and global crop yield fluctuations, providing a new tool for adapting food security to climate change.
A team of scientists has found that Borneo's productive trees are vitally important for global carbon cycling.
Converting cattle ranches to forests is a cheap way of tackling climate change and saving species threatened with extinction, a new study has found.
Carbon offsetting initiatives could be improved with new insights into the make-up of tropical forests.
Foreign species that are devastating water ecosystems could be "hitchhiking" around Britain on canoeists' and anglers' kit, according to a new study.