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Twenty years after An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore still believes in the climate fight: ‘We are going to win this’

In a first, olive ridley turtles spotted nesting on California’s beaches

UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer

Germany pledges to phase out fossil fuels for first time with target of 2045

Bats originated in Europe, rewriting mammals’ family tree, study reveals

Coogee ranks as Sydney’s worst ocean beach for faecal pollution – again

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‘Watermelons’: Zack Polanski and the rise of the ‘green outside, red inside’ eco-populists

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At Climate Week, Elmo recalls a storm on Sesame Street: ‘Courage is when you still help others’

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The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly | Bill McKibben

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Alpabzug! Swiss mountain alpaca herding – in pictures

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Our message to global leaders: we need solar power everywhere by the decade’s end | Open letter

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Angus Taylor pledges to repeal swathe of climate policies, saying ‘Australia has done its bit’

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What is an El Niño and how could it cause the hottest year on record? – video

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Fears mount that next UN chief will downgrade climate action

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Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months

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California and New York sue over Trump push to halt wind energy projects

Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’

Hats, pencils and baby pacifiers: Yellowstone staffers retrieve record amount of trash from hot springs

‘Worse than the scramble for Oasis tickets’: England’s sustainable farming funds run out in just six hours

Gums, ginkgos and a golden wych elm: which will win Victoria’s tree of the year?

Could you be an ‘autumn spotter’? Public asked to track changing colours of trees in England

High-mileage electric cars are more reliable than petrol ones, study finds

Wasp spider seen in north of England latest ‘climate refugee’ amid global heating

Robot fashion models and freediving with turtles: photos of the day – Tuesday

Prison Letters: the teenager writing letters to jailed climate activists – documentary

Poorer nations will be among the last to benefit if global emissions cut to net zero

Meet Barbie Pig: new documentary reveals the wonders of life on the Pacific seabed

‘Negligent’ to talk about long term risks to Australia without examining cost of climate crisis, experts say

World leaders address climate crisis before UN meet amid record-breaking El Niño

California braces for record El Niño storms as governor declares emergency

Datacentres in Victoria to be banned in residential areas

‘Short on substance’: Albanese urges climate action on world stage – but advocates say Australia failing on fossil fuels

Key ally urges Trump to back US farmers amid anger over rising prices

More than 150,000 underwater explosives used to deter seals at Tasmanian salmon farms since 2016

Discovery of new Australian stick insect species reveals case of mistaken identity

‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn

‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak

🌎 See you at New York Climate Week! #314

‘Incredibly encouraging’: healing the scars of traditional anchors in Dorset’s seagrass meadows

Millions of dollars in funding but still no plan: can Quebec save its caribou from extinction?

Tree vaccines and gene-edited butterflies among biotechnology projects funded by UK ‘invention agency’

Babies ‘will face almost twice as much’ extreme fire weather in Europe than great-grandparents

UK urged to strengthen financial muscle of national wealth fund to aid economy

More than 800,000 bees stolen across far north Queensland in ‘sophisticated’ operation

Bear-y good neighbors: humans and animals are learning to live together in an expanding LA

US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show

‘Do you have to be dead?’: US coalminers plead for benefits as black-lung disease cases surge

‘It’s transformed the village’: the volunteers greening up Britain’s train stations

Outfoxed: How well do you know your native animals? Australians’ questionable quoll knowledge exposed

Sea dragon populations decimated in ‘mind-blowing’ mass mortality event caused by South Australian algal bloom