UN negotiations are set to wrap up in Poland after weeks of tense disputes between rich and poor nations.

The Trump administration has held an event at a major UN climate summit to promote the use of fossil fuels in the fight against global warming.

White House representatives arrive at climate talks in Poland on Monday to promote coal and other fossil fuels.

Attempts to incorporate a key scientific study into global climate talks in Poland have failed.

The IPCC report on the impacts of a temperature rise of 1.5C, had a significant impact when it was launched last October.

Scientists and many delegates in Poland were shocked as the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Kuwait objected to this meeting "welcoming" the report.

Life on Earth is threatened by climate change, nuclear attack, dwindling resources – and the chasm between rich and poor.

Thousands of protesters occupied bridges across the Thames over extinction crisis in huge act of peaceful civil disobedience.

Environmental activist Farwiza Farhan is fighting to protect this last wilderness, Sumatra's Leuser Ecosystem.

Global conservation policy must stop the disappearance of Earth's few intact ecosystems, warn James E. M. Watson, James R. Allan and colleagues.