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Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site

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Switching 50km/h speed limits to 30km/h would protect cyclists while barely affecting commutes, research finds

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Pentagon retreats from climate fight even as heat and storms slam US troops

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Rachel Reeves to confirm changes to ‘outdated’ planning system

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Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds

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Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

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Matilda Boseley sports homemade pelican outfit to talk bird of the year on ABC – video

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‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Carmakers chose to cheat to sell cars rather than comply with emissions law, ‘dieselgate’ trial told

Greenpeace threatens to sue crown estate for driving up cost of offshore wind

Microplastics are brought into the wilderness on hiking shoes and gear, study shows

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Emissions linked to Woodside’s Scarborough gas project could lead to at least 480 deaths, research suggests

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New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets

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A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference?

National Trust and TV wildlife expert team up on autumn nature campaign

Energy firms complete UK’s first ‘hydrogen blending’ trial to power grid

Coral collapse signals Earth’s first climate tipping point

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

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Australia’s household energy bills will halve by 2050, modelling suggests

UK ministers take control of £10bn Lower Thames Crossing

High youth death rates are an ‘emerging crisis’, global health study warns

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Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy

Baby numbats spotted at two wildlife sanctuaries in hopeful sign for one of Australia’s rarest marsupials

Crocodile made famous by Steve Irwin ‘wrongfully arrested’ and should be returned to wild, traditional owners say

Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists

Baby giant tortoises thrive in Seychelles after first successful artificial incubation

US farmers caught in Trump-China trade war – who’ll buy the soybeans?

Richard Tice has 15-year record of supporting ‘net stupid zero’ initiatives

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Week in wildlife: a bumpy snailfish, a slow loris and a whistle pig

Queensland to run its coal plants up to a decade longer than previously planned

Grisly recording reveals bat catching, killing and eating robin mid-flight

Prince William to attend Cop30 UN climate summit in Brazil

One of world’s biggest windfarm developers to cut quarter of workforce

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

Britain missing out on potential £2bn recycling industry by exporting plastic waste

US west coast faults could trigger catastrophic back-to-back earthquakes, study finds

‘We don’t want to be a toy town’: has Brexit sunk this historic UK fishing fleet?