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Cop30 live: ‘We need to think about how to live without fossil fuels’ Brazilian president Lula tells summit

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Quebec lake breaks bank and empties out downstream – video

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Trump officials reveal plan to roll back regulations in Endangered Species Act

‘We can no longer predict the seasons’: why Indonesia’s coal mindset has to change

Thousands of toxic sites across US face risk of coastal flooding

Raiders of the lobster pot: Canadian wolves learn to loot crab traps for bait

Coalition to help Labor rush through new nature laws if environmental protections dropped

Australia’s failed bid to host Cop31 looks like a mess – but it may actually be the best result possible | Adam Morton

Nazi bombs, torpedo heads and mines: how marine life thrives on dumped weapons

Papua New Guinea ‘not happy’ as Australia walks away from bid to host Cop31

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Turkey to host Cop31 climate conference after Australia drops push to hold it in Adelaide

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Divide over fossil fuels phaseout can be bridged, Cop30 president says

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People in the US: tell us how the climate crisis has affected your life in small ways this year

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Denmark announces one of the world’s most ambitious climate targets, while the rest of the EU looks away

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Researchers say real impact of deforestation being hidden in Australia’s official figures by ‘sleight of hand’

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Coalition and Labor negotiate nature laws as Greens warn compromise would show it was ‘written for big business’

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Combining western science with Indigenous knowledge could help the Arctic

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Cop30: Scientists warn countries must act decisively to protect people and life or risk ‘suffering for billions’ – as it happened

China doesn’t want to lead alone on climate policies, senior adviser warns

Drone footage shows ‘mountain’ of fly-tipped waste in Oxfordshire – video

Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds

Unprecedented marine heatwave decimates corals at Ningaloo reef – video

Heat-pump homes put less strain on grid than expected, study shows

'Exceptionally rare' pink grasshopper spotted by New Zealand ranger – video

Keeping promises on renewables, energy efficiency and methane ‘would avoid nearly 1C of global heating’

Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?

Tropical cyclone Fina intensifies to category two and could hit NT coast on Friday

‘Exceptionally rare’ pink grasshopper spotted in New Zealand

Stranded whale euthanized after failed rescue attempt off Oregon coast

More than 80 countries at Cop30 join call for roadmap to fossil fuel phase-out

Surgeons reattach 10-year-old girl’s hand nearly lost in Florida shark attack

Bhutan PM on leading the first carbon-negative nation: ‘The wellbeing of our people is at the centre of our agenda’

As New York City builds flood resilience, a Queens neighborhood feels neglected: ‘We are forgotten here’

Can mountain lions make a comeback in the US north-east? One group hopes so

‘Sustainable’ Cambridge busway will cause irreversible ecological harm, inquiry told

‘Our future is being burnt down’: youth activists call for fossil phaseout at Cop30 – as it happened

California farms applied millions of pounds of Pfas to key crops, study finds

Australia will not oppose Turkey staging Cop31 as Albanese signals policy shift

At least 15 English sewage plants use plastic beads spilled at Camber Sands

The rainforest the world forgot: the Congo basin is the second largest on Earth, so why is it being neglected?

More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation finds

The conservative parties can change their leaders – but it won’t stop the NSW Coalition’s death spiral | Anne Davies

Sussan Ley, it’s time we took a look at your climate policy report card. You appear to have learned nothing | Tristan Edis

Three sugar cubes worth of plastic enough to kill a puffin, study finds

🌎 IEA pulls the plug on peak oil #271

South Korean decision to close all coal-fired power plants by 2040 sounds alarm for Australian exports

Business and energy leaders warn Coalition dumping net zero won’t cut power bills and demand more detail

Life-saving research on extreme heat comes under fire

Thousands protest in the Philippines over disappeared flood defence funds – video

Cop30: UN accused of crackdown on Indigenous people – as it happened