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World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say

The bee project helping to tackle elephant-human conflict in Kenya – in pictures

Cop29: ministers told to ‘cut theatrics’, ‘move faster’ and ‘get down to business’ amid growing frustration at slow progress – as it happened

Trump’s new energy tsar linked to fracking in Australia’s Beetaloo basin

Backflip on international student caps ‘baffling’, MP says – as it happened

Don’t waver on electric car targets, big UK businesses tell Labour

Far-right groups plan to hijack farmers’ protest in London against tax changes

Floods, explosions and asbestos: Thames Water faces potential problems on all fronts

Thames Water supply ‘on knife-edge’ with £23bn repairs needed

Greens drop climate trigger demand in attempt to restart Nature Positive talks with Labor

Countries must set aside differences and agree climate finance deal, says German minister

Farmers in England and Wales feel betrayed by inheritance tax changes, says NFU

How a fatal bear attack led an Italian commune to rally against rewilding

The Observer view: the Cop summit is foundering, we need urgent action not more hot air

How winter makes recycling harder with 40% jump in contamination

I’m finally into ‘prepping’ and ready for the apocalypse | Eva Wiseman

Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britain | Will Hutton

Australia will detail its 2035 emission targets ‘sometime next year’, Anthony Albanese says

Anthony Albanese ‘very confident’ Australian exporters won’t be slugged with heavy US trade tariffs

Trump picks oil and gas industry CEO Chris Wright as next energy secretary

Red squirrels ‘to vanish from England’ unless vaccine against squirrelpox funded

UN warns of ‘economic carnage’ if G20 leaders cannot agree on climate finance for poor countries

Get away, grizzly: why scientists are chasing bears with drones

United Utilities refuses to hand over data on sewage discharges into Windermere

Little sign of rain to alleviate drought and wildfire risks in US north-east

Almost 500 carbon capture lobbyists granted access to Cop29 climate summit

Second oarfish, mythical harbinger of doom, found washed up in California

Fossil fuel bosses get ‘red carpet’ at Cop29 despite concerns over influence

Valencia's president apologises for handling of deadly floods – video

Environmental groups alarmed as Doug Burgum picked for US interior secretary

The Guardian view on UN climate talks: rich and poor nations can strike a win-win deal | Editorial

Fears grow that Milei will withdraw Argentina from Paris climate accord

Move towards renewable energy is unstoppable, says Ed Miliband

The world’s largest coral was discovered in the South Pacific

Trump transition team plans to kill Biden’s electric vehicle tax credit

Chris Bowen makes last-minute diplomatic stop in Turkey as Australia ramps up bid to host Cop31

Valencia’s president admits mistakes in flood response but will not resign

Rescue mission begins after mysterious crayfish deaths in Northumberland

Santos figured out net zero roadmap ‘literally on the fly’, court hears in world-first greenwashing case

Week in wildlife in pictures: a very lost penguin, cloned baby ferrets and a mystery mollusc

Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29 | George Monbiot

Cop29: oil bosses given red carpet treatment at climate summit – as it happened

Smog crisis: pollution envelops Indian capital as Pakistan province declares emergency

‘Learn how to safely catch funnel-webs’: Sydneysiders tasked with hunt for venom as spiders’ breeding season begins

Over 1,700 coal, oil and gas lobbyists granted access to Cop29, says report

Cop summits ‘no longer fit for purpose’, say leading climate policy experts

My moth hell has given me sympathy for all fellow sufferers – even the 1% | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Almost half of Valencia’s flood victims were aged over 70, figures show

22 pesticides show links to prostate cancer

World’s largest known coral discovered in Solomon Islands