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Weather tracker: Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction across Caribbean

BoM says October will be hottest ever for Queensland and NT as heat records tumble

Two found dead in flooded basements as New York city hit by rainstorm

Vietnam floods: streets of Hoi An submerged like canals of Venice – in pictures

Paint me cool: scientists reveal roof coating that can reduce surface temperatures up to 6C on hot days

US climate activists condemn 18-month jail term for nonviolent art museum protester

Ex-EPA head urges US to resist Trump attacks on climate action: ‘We won’t become numb’

Ken Henry warns ‘conga line of developers’ would try to exploit exemptions in Labor’s proposed nature laws

Despite what a thinktank bleats to the Coalition, heat deaths are in fact ‘a thing’ | Temperature Check

The luxury effect: why you’ll find more wildlife in wealthy areas – and what it means for your health

Toxin levels in fish lead to calls for UK-wide ban on mercury dental fillings

When the rains don’t come: how drought and endless dry seasons are changing life in Puntland – in pictures

Insurers calling for trees to be felled as cheap fix for subsidence, say critics

Shell’s profits pass $43bn after production hits new highs in Brazil and Gulf of Mexico

Trump-Xi meeting: US president says rare earths deal and tariff cut agreed

‘White-knuckled wolf spider’ thought lost is rediscovered on Isle of Wight

Boris Johnson tells Tories to stop ‘bashing green agenda’ or risk losing next election

Grieving daughter of cruise ship passenger left behind on remote Australian island says ‘there was a failure of care’

Hurricane Melissa hits Cuba after turning Jamaica into ‘disaster area’

UK unveils ‘carbon budget delivery plan’ to get back on track for net zero targets

Matt Kean rebukes Coalition for ‘playing politics ’ as crunch time looms for nature laws

Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean

Shark feeding frenzy spotted near shore at popular Australian surf beach

How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health

All operational US liquefied natural gas terminals have violated pollution limits, says report

‘Animal cruelty’: two-year-old humpback whale found dead in NSW shark net causes anger

Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam

‘Storm of the century’: record-breaking Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica and heads for Cuba

Hurricane Melissa: a visual guide to Jamaica’s strongest storm since 1851

Bill Gates says climate crisis won’t cause ‘humanity’s demise’ in call to shift focus to ‘improving lives’

Offshore windfarm projects may be exempted from new UK nature rules

Hurricane Melissa spins into a monster storm as it bears down on Jamaica

‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given sceptical briefing on climate science

Marine wildlife fleeing to poles due to global heating as Australian oceans face ‘uncharted’ future

Pakistani farmers to sue German polluters over climate-linked flood damage

‘Trump doesn’t represent us’: US activist groups to push for climate action at Cop30 in Brazil

How do you move a village? Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea

Polar bears provide millions of kilograms of food for other Arctic species

Expanded state powers on fossil fuel projects and water ‘betrayal’ of Australians, nature law critics say

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds

Is it possible to find a sensible centre on climate change? | Fiona Katauskas

Biodiversity is in catastrophic decline. Here are three ways to ensure Australia’s conservation law actually works | Atticus Fleming and Andrew Macintosh

UN chief António Guterres: 'We don't want to see the Amazon become a savannah' - video

Organised crime making millions from illegal waste dumping in UK, says committee

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

Experts say Ed Miliband’s £1.1bn for new offshore wind projects not enough

Two crucial Florida coral species left ‘functionally extinct’ by ocean heatwave

🌎 Europe extends runtime for Li-ion LDES #268

The acquisitions of a fortunate life have accumulated over the years. All must be culled while I have the wherewithal | Paul Daley