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Labor’s nature law overhaul contains wins – but we should watch for gremlins in the details | Adam Morton

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Cuddling capybaras and ogling otters: the problem with animal cafes in Asia

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Rachel Reeves hands farmers inheritance tax break

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The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws comes as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding | Georgina Woods

Environmental activist Ben Pennings declares ‘massive victory’ after Adani drops its years-long legal pursuit

Large bull shark kills woman and injures man in attack at NSW beach

‘A win for nature and people’: Elizabeth line soil used to create Essex bird haven

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The bird people of Lake Manchar: surviving in a vanishing oasis

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John Kerry urges Australia to take ‘hard-nosed’ approach with world’s biggest fossil fuel-producing countries at Cop31

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Ed Miliband confirms crackdown on North Sea exploration – but new drilling will continue

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Trump’s EPA moves to abandon tough standards for deadly soot pollution

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Australia’s emissions from fossil fuels down as electricity from renewables passes 40%

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Labor’s nature laws risk collapse with deal yet to be struck on eve of parliament’s final sitting day

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To defeat the global Goliaths devastating our planet, we must raise an army of Davids | Peter Lewis

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Guardian Essential poll: only a quarter of older Australians believe climate change can be prevented

US, Russia and Saudi Arabia create axis of obstruction as Cop30 sputters out

UK can create 5,400 jobs if it stops plastic waste exports, report finds

One in seven English bathing spots rated as polluted in latest testing

‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic

Nature inFocus photography competition 2025: flamingos, foxes and a chilled out chimp

‘Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs’: Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal

Labor’s attempts to woo Greens and Coalition on nature laws revealed amid criticism of ‘coin toss’

What do Murray Watt and climate activists have in common? | Fiona Katauskas

The Guardian view on UN climate talks: they reveal how little time is left | Editorial

More than 650 jobs at risk as scrap metals giant files for liquidation

The 2025 BirdLife Australia photography awards – in pictures

UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show

‘Hunger has left its mark on me’: a Native woman reflects on her rich but food-scarce life

Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests

Search is on for the German hairy snail in London

Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way | Genevieve Guenther

‘I’m afraid for our children’: living with the climate crisis in the Philippines – in pictures

‘Culture cringe’: experts dismiss Coalition claims Chris Bowen cannot remain minister while leading Cop31 negotiations

How can Australia convince the world to give up fossil fuels if Anthony Albanese is contradicting himself on gas expansion? | Bill Hare

UK ‘most expensive place’ to build nuclear power, review finds

We delivered a clear message at Cop30: the delayers and defeatists are losing the climate fight | Ed Miliband

UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight

Labor pledges to pass long-awaited nature laws this week as Greens demand more concessions

UK launches critical minerals strategy to reduce dependency on China

‘We’ve got to find answers’: Corby families affected by cancer searching for truth about toxic waste sites

How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality

Australia’s unconventional Cop31 deal puts Chris Bowen at the helm of the world’s most complex negotiations. It’s a huge opportunity | Thom Woodroofe and Dean Bialek

End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff

Fury, confusion and gratitude as climate deal reached in Belém – as it happened

‘Superfluous consumerism’: adult Advent calendar trend alarms green groups

Sycamore Gap tree saplings to be planted across UK

Miliband urges Cop30 to find ‘creative’ routes to roadmap on phasing out fossil fuel

Cop30 delegates ‘far apart’ on phasing out fossil fuels and cutting carbon

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