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Sussan Ley says she ‘misspoke’ after comments that Coalition doesn’t believe in setting climate targets

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Week in wildlife: a flying teddy, a fishy shipwreck and a globe-trotting sea slug

Ten new wild swimming locations should be created in London, report says

Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry

TfL says persistent offenders owe more than £700m in Ulez fines

Powerful owls’ grisly crime scenes in urban parkland remind us we share suburbia with a magnificent predator

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‘Sun day’: US climate activists to rally for clean energy amid Trump attacks

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The Indiana town suffering under the shadow of a BP refinery: ‘They’ve had way too many accidents’

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How Bill Gates is playing both sides of the climate crisis – video

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‘A slap in the face’: our expert panel on Australia’s 2035 emissions target

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How vulnerable are Australia’s cities to extreme heat? Explore our maps

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The island that banned hives: can honeybees actually harm nature?

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Whale and her calf entangled in shark net off Queensland coast

‘It’s not just our houses’: can a Scottish village save Queen Elizabeth’s coastal path from the waves?

Only a third of world’s river basins experienced normal conditions in 2024

Australian government announces 2035 emissions reduction target – video

Bowen says cutting emissions by more than 70% ‘not achievable’ as 2035 target criticised from all sides

San Francisco supervisor recalled after voting to close highway for car-free park

In the days after my mum died, a blackbird lingered like a messenger of solace | Mark Saunokonoko

Trump golf course in Scotland accused of breaching sewage limits

Labor’s 2035 emissions target a ‘sliding doors’ moment for future generations

‘Privatisation premium’: billions from UK energy bills paid to shareholders

‘A dolphin among sharks’: readers pay tribute to Robert Redford, a great movie star and decent human being

Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’

Australia has an Everest to climb if it wants to protect itself from climate catastrophe. But do we have the political resolve? | Erwin Jackson

Ground zero: rain-starved southern Australia is grappling with one of the worst droughts in memory

‘We’re still in the dark’: a missing land defender and the deadly toll of land conflict on Indigenous people

‘It seemed like a ghost town’: LA food vendors on how Trump’s Ice raids affected business

UN tries to limit staff going to Cop30 in Brazil due to high price of hotels

US senator calls on big oil to disclose lobbying that led Trump to axe key climate rule

Heatwaves caused more than 1,000 deaths in Australia over four-year period, study finds

Young climate activists in court aim to stop Trump’s pro-fossil fuel executive orders

Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89

Finland is ready for the next crisis, with stockpiled food and 72-hour kits – Europe should be too | Miika Ilomäki

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation

Sydney’s west on frontline for most extreme heat and biggest health risks – but inner city faces water threat

Australia’s climate risk assessment prompts deluge of misinformation from the usual suspects | Temperature Check

Up to 185,000 Queensland homes could be at ‘very high risk’ with many uninsurable if global heating unchecked

Weakening net zero policy ‘will spook investors’, warns UK’s climate adviser

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The government has laid out the perils of the climate crisis – but will Albanese meet the moment?

Hedgehogs, salmon and birds at risk after dry summer, says Natural England

‘Bipartisan, common sense, science-based’: California leads the way in banning ultra-processed school meals

Google’s huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year

New legal challenge to plan for Spurs football academy in London park

Bali battles worst floods in more than a decade

‘You’re going about your day and suddenly see a little Godzilla’: Bangkok reckons with a giant lizard boom

UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain

Right to swim and wild camp in England should be enshrined in law, Labour MPs say

Millions of Australians at risk from rising sea levels and heat deaths to soar, national climate risk assessment report warns