Australia news live: Rinehart buys ‘significant’ stake in Elon Musk’s SpaceX; family of Sydney shark attack victim say her injuries are ‘severe and life-threatening’

UK poised to water down 2030 EV sales targets after industry and union pressure

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Deadly Philippines earthquake found to have raised seabed by up to 2 metres

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Jamaican beach access campaigners go to court to fight privatisation of coast

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Jamaica’s beach access crisis: ‘We shouldn’t be forced to fight for what is already ours’

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‘It’s going to be extremely hot’: workers imperiled as sweltering World Cup temperatures are forecast

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Amoc collapse could change Europe’s climate 10x faster than expected. We aren’t ready

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Illegal dump becomes ‘symbol of north-south divide’ at heart of Makerfield byelection

Denial is back in vogue. As Australia leads climate talks, it’s beyond time we took the issue seriously

I was a hardcore twitcher. I understand why the Cocos booby has Australia’s birders in a frenzy | Andrew Stafford

Gee, whiz: elephant relieves itself on floor of Texas Republican convention

Tropical heron spotted in UK for first time as more exotic birds arrive to thrill birdwatchers

‘Fast-track’ regulation could expose Britons to harmful chemicals, say campaigners

Trees may store less planet-heating carbon than hoped, study suggests

Australia can switch from fossil fuel exports to renewables, says next Cop president

Meet the people protecting the magic beans of life from extinction | Jess Harwood

Antarctica’s west coast missing an area of sea ice the size of France as temperatures peak 20C above average

‘It’s massive destruction’: outcry in Texas over waivers to allow border wall in Big Bend national park

Goblin shark with face ‘not even a mother would love’ seen alive in natural habitat for first time

Week in wildlife: a squirrel with a splint, hungry hyenas and a great white shark

Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests

Britain’s favourite butterfly revealed – and it’s a familiar backyard beauty

‘The birds will fly away’: can Albania’s flamingo revolution keep its wetlands free from Trumps and tourists?

Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length, study finds

Scientists reveal surprising mechanism behind Venus flytrap’s rapid snap

Bananas could vanish from US school meals. Here’s why

El Niño forms in Pacific as experts say it will likely turbocharge extreme weather

Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time

Millions of homes in London, Essex and Kent at risk of sinking as climate crisis worsens

Trump administration land gift to SpaceX would hurt Texas habitat, lawsuit says

Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown

Four days of extreme rain in Indonesia killed 7% of world’s rarest great apes, study finds

Toby Carvery to fund orchard replanting as settlement for felling ancient oak

Deepest and most extensive whale graveyard discovered in Indian Ocean

Sardinian beach bans umbrellas for people aged 10 to 65

‘Every day it’s more barriers’: how the US is shutting out climate refugees

Trump targeting immigrants from countries hit most by climate shocks

The rightwing campaign to control how US judges view the climate crisis

Big agriculture is killing our bees. We’ll all pay the price | Jennie Durant

Pollinators in peril: scientists reveal the hidden human health costs of the world’s disappearing bees

A question for Nigel Farage – why is your nationalist party so obsessed with destroying British jobs? | George Monbiot

More than half of clean energy schemes needed for Labour’s 2030 target offered grid connection

Households could save £200 on energy bills in plan to break link between gas and electricity prices, says thinktank

Birdwatch: Going to the Galápagos for the gulls

Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says

Bycatch has ‘shocking’ toll on British marine life, first-ever analysis reveals

Cattle in England to get tuberculosis vaccine from 2030 as badger cull to end

Florida shaken by 6.1-magnitude earthquake off coast of Cuba