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As Adelaide rolls out the welcome mat to cycling world for Tour Down Under, I feel ashamed | Maeve Plouffe

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Are our bodies full of microplastics or not? There’s a way to resolve this debate, and scientists must hurry | Debora MacKenzie

Extreme rainfall inundates South Africa and Mozambique

Water restored to most Kent and Sussex homes after six days’ disruption

Sydney awaits ‘soggiest weekend of summer’ as Victorian authorities defend flash flood warnings

Week in wildlife: monkey spa day, a frisky kākāpō and a camouflaged owl

BP accused of ‘insidious’ influence on UK education through Science Museum links

Pesticides may drastically shorten fish lifespans, study finds

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Spain’s meteorologists subjected to ‘alarming’ rise in hate speech, minister warns

South East Water boss in line for £400,000 bonus despite outages

Thursday briefing: Is your body really full of microplastics?

Africa’s great elephant divide: countries struggle with too many elephants – or too few

Traces of cancer-linked pesticide found in tests at UK playgrounds

I’ve been thinking a lot about dog poo | Adrian Chiles

EPA to stop calculating money and lives saved by curbs on air pollution

South East Water could lose operating licence after outages in Kent and Sussex

Labour still faces risks on energy despite ‘record’ wind power auction | Nils Pratley

‘It has destroyed years of work’: Cornish beauty spot loses 80% of its trees to Storm Goretti

Former NSW Labor minister condemns Forestry Corporation after greater glider ‘den trees’ found at planned logging site

BP to take hit of up to $5bn on green energy as it refocuses on fossil fuels

With this record wind power auction, we’ve proved the rightwing doubters wrong | Ed Miliband

Offshore windfarm contracts to fuel 12m homes in Great Britain after record auction

Human activity helped make 2025 third-hottest year on record, experts say

Earth’s last 3 years were its hottest on record

US carbon pollution rose in 2025 in reversal of previous years’ reductions

‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body

Ten Sydney Harbours’ worth of threatened species habitat approved for destruction in 2025, report finds

Red-state Republicans seek climate ‘liability shield’ for fossil fuel industry

Ex-FDA workers warn Trump cuts will increase risk of food safety lapses in US

Search for single-tusked elephant after 22 killed in India rampage

He invented mini saunas for frogs – now this biologist has big plans to save hundreds of species

Berry nice to meet you: bumper fruit crop could lead to huge mating season for NZ’s endangered kākāpō

Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s

Wildlife targets will be missed in England and Northern Ireland, watchdog says

More than 500 structures destroyed in Victoria’s bushfires as 12 major blazes continue to burn

US judge lets Danish firm resume Rhode Island offshore wind project halted by Trump

US plan to exploit Venezuela’s oil could eat up 13% of carbon budget to keep 1.5C limit

🌎 US’ climate retreat leaves a $10bn hole in carbon markets #278

Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce use Gina Rinehart’s private jet to visit flooded parts of Queensland

Major incident declared as 30,000 homes left without water in Kent and Sussex

Trump’s move to pull US from key UN climate treaty may be illegal, experts say

Energy and health optimism help lift civil service morale under Labour

Flying foxes die in their thousands in worst mass-mortality event since Australia’s black summer

‘We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use

Queensland braces for heavy rain and floods after ex-Tropical Cyclone Koji batters north

One person dead as PM visits bushfire-ravaged towns with 300 structures destroyed and 350,000 hectares burned

Human remains found in bushfire area – as it happened

Australia’s Cop31 chief negotiator plans to lobby petrostates on fossil fuel phaseout

World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam

California is completely drought-free for the first time in 25 years