Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building Housing secretary Steve Reed has told Labour MPs to vote down an amendment to the new planning bill intended to protect British wildlife and its habitats from destruction. The amendment, which was passed
Climate groups call backflip a ‘disaster’ while moderate Liberals worry about impact on winning back urban electorates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says his party’s decision to dump a net zero
Sussan Ley appears to have given up trying to meet voters where they are, instead allowing conservative MPs to dictate policy to keep her job – and keep the Coalition together Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Six months ago on Thursday, the new
Videos show schoolgirls fighting off animals, while others show people feeding bears, with some so realistic that users struggled to distinguish between fact and fiction If a record number of fatal bear attacks wasn’t terrifying enough, experts say a torrent of AI-generated
Troubled waters over the world’s longest suspension bridge are no surprise. The Italian government should be funding public services A dozen or so times each day, as Italy’s southbound Intercity rail service arrives in the Calabrian town of Villa San Giovanni, the journey comes
If the government is committed to the energy transition and a future made in Australia, the choice that must be made is clear Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Whyalla provides the litmus test for the commonwealth and the South Australian government’s
Michael Miller tells Senate misinformation inquiry platforming climate deniers and net zero critics part of ‘great democracy and healthy debate’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free weekly media newsletter here A senior
Future Coalition government would not withdraw from Paris climate agreement altogether, Liberal frontbench decides a day after five-hour party room debate Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Liberal
We cannot claim to be of the right of politics yet shy away from targets that hold us to account, especially ones that were once the Liberals’ own Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast It has been suggested to me that my views on our society’s
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating The world is still on track for a catastrophic 2.6C increase in temperature as countries have not made sufficiently strong climate pledges, while emissions from
Exclusive interview with ex-US vice-president at Cop30 also reveals his hope around much-maligned climate summit Fear of being bullied by Donald Trump may have prompted Bill Gates to row back on the climate crisis , Al Gore has speculated, as he slammed the billionaire’s new
Stakeholders have spent months ironing out disagreements over how to distribute water from the sprawling basin State negotiators embroiled in an impasse over how to manage the imperiled Colorado River were unable to agree on a plan before a federally set deadline on Tuesday,
The party’s imminent move to abandon the 2050 climate goal makes the environment the loser and Labor the biggest winner LATEST: Liberals formally abandon net zero emissions target Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Appearing before the media after a
This live blog is now closed. You can read the full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in Brazil here Hello comrades, this is Nina Lakhani in chilly New York City taking over the blog for the next few hours. Thanks very much to my colleague Matt Taylor in London Town who
