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‘Culture cringe’: experts dismiss Coalition claims Chris Bowen cannot remain minister while leading Cop31 negotiations

How can Australia convince the world to give up fossil fuels if Anthony Albanese is contradicting himself on gas expansion? | Bill Hare

Simpler regulations spearhead UK taskforce plan to get new nuclear reactors built

We delivered a clear message at Cop30: the delayers and defeatists are losing the climate fight | Ed Miliband

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UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight

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Labor pledges to pass long-awaited nature laws this week as Greens demand more concessions

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UK launches critical minerals strategy to reduce dependency on China

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‘We’ve got to find answers’: Corby families affected by cancer searching for truth about toxic waste sites

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How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality

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Australia’s unconventional Cop31 deal puts Chris Bowen at the helm of the world’s most complex negotiations. It’s a huge opportunity | Thom Woodroofe and Dean Bialek

End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff

Fury, confusion and gratitude as climate deal reached in Belém – as it happened

‘Superfluous consumerism’: adult Advent calendar trend alarms green groups

Sycamore Gap tree saplings to be planted across UK

Miliband urges Cop30 to find ‘creative’ routes to roadmap on phasing out fossil fuel

Cop30 delegates ‘far apart’ on phasing out fossil fuels and cutting carbon

Labor to rule out controversial ‘national interest’ exemption for coal and gas if Greens back nature laws

How to make sustainable seafood choices this Christmas to ease the pressure on Australia’s oceans

The 2025 Oceania photo contest winners – in pictures

Cop30: countries still far apart as climate talks overrun – as it happened

A lot of axolotls: the amphibian-themed banknote Mexicans don’t want to spend

There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot

Week in wildlife: traffic-stopping reindeer, wildcats and a giraffe on the move

Three-metre giant oarfish, ‘palace messenger’ of doom, washes up on Tasmanian beach

Cop30 draft text omits mention of fossil fuel phase-out roadmap

White House announces new oil and gas drilling off California and Florida

Pelosi calls Trump ‘the biggest con job in American history’ in reply to climate comment

Cop30 climate summit in Brazil disrupted after fire breaks out in venue

Brazilian president will take fossil fuel phase-out plan to G20 summit

Ottawa officials to cull ‘mindblowing’ influx of thousands of goldfish in pond

Leaked Coalition talking points direct MPs to argue dumping net zero does not conflict with Paris agreement

Cop30 conference centre evacuated as fire breaks out – as it happened

Quebec lake breaks bank and empties out downstream – video

Trump officials reveal plan to roll back regulations in Endangered Species Act

‘We can no longer predict the seasons’: why Indonesia’s coal mindset has to change

Thousands of toxic sites across US face risk of coastal flooding

Raiders of the lobster pot: wily wolves learn to haul in Canadian crab traps

Coalition to help Labor rush through new nature laws if environmental protections dropped

Australia’s failed bid to host Cop31 looks like a mess – but it may actually be the best result possible | Adam Morton

Nazi bombs, torpedo heads and mines: how marine life thrives on dumped weapons

Papua New Guinea ‘not happy’ as Australia walks away from bid to host Cop31

Turkey to host Cop31 climate conference after Australia drops push to hold it in Adelaide

Divide over fossil fuels phaseout can be bridged, Cop30 president says

People in the US: tell us how the climate crisis has affected your life in small ways this year

Denmark announces one of the world’s most ambitious climate targets, while the rest of the EU looks away

Researchers say real impact of deforestation being hidden in Australia’s official figures by ‘sleight of hand’

Coalition and Labor negotiate nature laws as Greens warn compromise would show it was ‘written for big business’

Cop30: Scientists warn countries must act decisively to protect people and life or risk ‘suffering for billions’ – as it happened

China doesn’t want to lead alone on climate policies, senior adviser warns

Drone footage shows ‘mountain’ of fly-tipped waste in Oxfordshire – video