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Media and political attacks on Australia’s emissions targets ‘straight out of the climate obstruction playbook’, expert says

UN plastics treaty chair to step down with process in turmoil

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Marine heatwaves to become more frequent off UK and Irish coasts, experts say

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Fiery Senate exchange reveals investigation into coal firm allegedly clearing endangered greater glider habitat

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‘It’s Sellafield or nothing’: what life is like growing up in the shadow of Europe’s oldest nuclear site

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‘Fiery and spectacular’ rainbow of autumn colour set to bloom across UK

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Trump orders approval of 211-mile mining road through Alaska wilderness

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Thames Water removes 100-tonne fatberg from west London sewer

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Marine park threatens to euthanize 30 whales if Canada does not provide funding

At $4.5bn each year, extreme weather is costing Australia three times as much compared with 1990s, insurers say

Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’

As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

Cause of Gold Coast mass fish kill unknown with marine heatwave most likely culprit, scientists say

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Ohio’s sole national forest could be wiped out as Trump targets land for logging

Ministers to announce significant changes to UK’s planning system

Youth-led US climate activists widen focus to fight authoritarianism

Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world

Hot public holiday expected for Sydney and Brisbane after record rain for parts of NSW and Queensland in September

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Empty tollbooths, ‘devastated’ visitors: shutdown throws US national parks into limbo

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

Trump officials cut nearly $8bn in clean energy projects in Democratic states

‘I think it’s selfish’: William and Kate face backlash over Windsor Great Park no-go zone

Warnings of imports of caged hen eggs as Ukraine and Poland become UK’s biggest suppliers

UK electric car sales hit record high as taxpayer subsidies help attract buyers

Starmer will hand Britain over to Farage, says Green party leader Zack Polanski

Banking industry’s net zero alliance shuts down amid faltering climate commitments

California governor under pressure over bill to ban cookware made with Pfas

Fungi finds: UK citizen scientists make rare pink and purple discoveries

Week in wildlife: a shy polar bear, whirling waders and a pilchard platoon

Snowy Hydro 2.0 flags another cost blowout with $12bn price tag now considered unachievable

Wildfires are getting deadlier and costing more. Experts warn they’re becoming unstoppable

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Jem Cresswell’s striking whale images – in pictures

A pheasant coucal is a mass of contradictions: a bewildered bravo rolling through my house like a feathered wrecking ball | Bronwen Scott

BrewDog sells Scottish ‘rewilding’ estate it bought only five years ago

Starmer can help shape the future of the world at Cop30. He can’t let fear of Farage stop him | Michael Jacobs

Senior Tories dismayed at Badenoch’s ‘catastrophic’ vow to repeal Climate Change Act

‘A remarkable ability to inspire’: global tributes pour in for Jane Goodall

Dogs and drones: how scientists are saving Washington’s endangered orcas

‘It’s been beyond difficult’: earthworks of HS2 take toll on Chilterns residents

UK politics: Jenrick’s ideas mostly ‘my thoughts repackaged’, says Badenoch – as it happened

Visions of resistance: women fighting to save their homeland – in pictures

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

‘Desecration of landscape’: the fight over development in areas of outstanding natural beauty