After falling for four consecutive months, the Ifo business-climate survey rose in June.

ECONOMIST: Overview

The leading indicators the OECD uses for the UK include new car registrations, the Confederation of British Industry's business climate survey, a measure of the stocks of finished goods and a measure of consumer confidence, all weighted, added together and compared to an estimation of the trend.

BBC: The popcorn route to recovery

Many meteorologists and scientists say that a single warm winter is all part of the natural variations of an unpredictable climate, but a new climatic survey has reported that Europe's Alpine region is now warmer than at any other time since the Middle Ages, so could the current conditions be a taste of things to come?

CNN: Alpine resorts feel the heat

The topic was the most frequently talked about issue in 10 nations in last year's survey, but this year climate change topped the list only in Germany and Britain.

BBC: Unemployment is world's fastest-rising fear - survey

Once the survey has been completed, the findings will be made available for the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties in Copenhagen, Denmark, next year.

BBC: Polar survey team start journey

In Ifo's monthly survey, about 7, 000 companies are asked for their views of the current business climate and their outlook over the coming six months.

BBC: NEWS | Business | German confidence at two-year low

Paul Holland of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) stuck to his findings last year that a shift in winds linked to climate change was blowing ice away from the coast, allowing exposed water in some areas to freeze and make yet more ice.

BBC: Melt may explain Antarctica's sea ice expansion