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The week in wildlife – in pictures: fluffy kiwi chicks, a ‘swimming’ mole and a lucky duck

Cop28 live: negotiations resume as countries seek progress on final deal

Mass deaths of elephant seals recorded as bird flu sweeps across the Antarctic

Talks at Cop28 set to intensify in bid to break impasse over fossil fuels

Canada’s fossil fuel firms will need to cut emissions by at least 35% by 2030

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Thousands left without power in SA heatwave as other states issue alerts – as it happened

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‘Unprecedented mass coral bleaching’ expected in 2024, says expert

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Plant fossils turn out to be turtles in ‘unusual misidentification’

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Cop28 protests – in pictures

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Australia commits $150m to climate finance for vulnerable Pacific countries

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‘Bring it on’: Labour vows to fight Tories’ ‘degradation’ of nature in race for No 10

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We need power to prescribe climate policy, IPCC scientists say

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Alarm at plan to stash planet-heating CO2 beneath US national forests

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Revealed: how top pop stars are used to ‘launder the reputation’ of Koch family

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$20,000 monkeys: inside the booming illicit trade for lab animals

Visualised: how all of G20 is missing climate goals — but some nations are closer than others

Aerial shooting of feral horses in Kosciuszko national park begins

Carbon pricing would raise trillions needed to tackle climate crisis, says IMF

Beach? Shopping? Sleep? How Cop28 is spending its rest day

New UK animal welfare minister backed seal and wild bird culls

Trafalgar Square Christmas tree must cut its carbon footprint, says Oslo mayor

UK nuclear revelations: how bad could they get and could they affect the US and Europe?

Here’s how 2023 became the hottest year on record

Landscape Explorer shows how much the American West has changed

VIP passengers: the five black rhinos flown 2,700 miles on a mission to repopulate Chad

The Winterkeeper: a lifetime spent protecting the wilderness

The Winterkeeper: protecting the US’s last great wilderness

Minnows into seadogs: inside England’s new fishing apprenticeship

US plastic bag recycling directory site taken down after ‘abysmal failure’

Pregnant women near farms had higher weedkiller levels during spraying season

Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn

Air France, Lufthansa and Etihad ads banned for misleading claims

Australia ends finance for fossil fuel expansion overseas – now focus turns to local subsidies

UK minister demands answers for security failings at Sellafield

Police in Greece investigate after tourists targeted in bedbug hoax

Give the gift of food: chefs share their favorite cookbooks of 2023

UK likely to miss Paris climate targets by wide margin, analysis shows

Revealed: Sellafield nuclear site has leak that could pose risk to public

Massive Attack plan festival powered by 100% renewable energy

Labor and Greens strike deal to establish nature repair scheme

Thames Water likely to face MPs over fears it could run out of money by April

Long thought to be extinct in Kenya, giant pangolins are now being helped back from the brink

Cop28: anger after record number of fossil fuel lobbyists given access to summit – as it happened

Australian EV sales have increased by 185% since 2022

Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels to hit record high

Labour to urge MPs to ban bonuses for water firm bosses over sewage dumping

Eight workers at Texas chemical plant hospitalized after toxic gas leak

Greens accuse Labor and Coalition of ‘race to the bottom’ over migration bill – as it happened

Cop28 president hits back after outcry over remarks on fossil fuels – video report

Fossil fuel firms should volunteer to help vulnerable countries, says Spanish minister