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Australia deploys aerial drones, tracking tags and nets to protect beachgoers from sharks

Australia fends off shark bites with new tech and old

Despite criticism over its environmental impact, artificial snow will be used at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics

Winter Olympics: high in the Alps, artificial snow will still play role

Jamaica's top officials have urged people on the island of 2.8 million to cooperate with evacuation orders

Bracing for impact

'Not our first hurricane': Jamaicans prepare to ride out deadly Melissa

Fishermen boats are tied together in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Melissa near Rae Town, a fishing village in East Kingston, Jamaica

Category 5 storm

AI-generated fakes proliferate as Hurricane Melissa nears Jamaica

Waves crash onto the beach in Kingston on October 27, 2025; Hurricane Melissa threatened Jamaica with potentially deadly rains after rapidly intensifying into a top-level Category 5 storm

Slow but savage: Why hurricanes like Melissa are becoming more common

Murray cod -- this one from the Sydney Aquarium in 2011 -- can live for nearly 50 years

860-kilometre journey

Australian Murray cod wallops swim record

Putin had already suspended Russia's participation in the agreement in 2016

Already defunct deal

Putin terminates plutonium disposal agreement with US

Fishing boats are tied together in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Melissa near the fishing village of Rae Town, East Kingston, Jamaica

Catastrophic flooding predicted

Jamaica braces as 'extremely powerful' Hurricane Melissa looms

Locals are divided on how to benefit from interest in Mrima Hill's minerals

Critical for high-tech industry

Global race for rare earths comes to Kenya's Mrima Hill

Work was frozen after jihadists launched a deadly attack on the site of the project near the Tanzanian border in March 2021

Waiting for government's green light

TotalEnergies approves restart of $20-bn Mozambique gas project

Porsche has said it will delay the introduction of some fully electric cars and extend the life of some combustion engine and hybrid models

After strong first half of the year

Porsche loses almost one billion euros on shift back to petrol

Nigerian environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey says that the best part of COP is meeting other activists - and ignoring the policymakers

Young people are rising up

Top Nigerian environmentalist sees little coming out of COP30

Commuters drive amid heavy smog in New Delhi on October 21, 2025, as haze engulfed the city skyline after Diwali celebrations

Ahead of planned rollout

India trials Delhi cloud seeding to combat deadly smog

Tensions between the EU's desire to play a starring role in the fight against global warming and to boost its sluggish economy have come to a head

Charting a way forward

EU leaders lay out conditions for emissions target deal

Pump jacks operate at dusk near Loco Hills on April 23, 2020 in Eddy County, New Mexico

Due to subsidies

US oil giants produce mainly at home but send more tax dollars overseas

This handout picture provided by Shedd Aquarium shows a dying thicket of Acropora cervicornis (staghorn coral) in Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, on 11 September, 2023, with some branches completely bleached and others having already died

Declining since the '70s

'Functionally extinct': Heat wave left Florida coral species on brink

The company changed its name from Total to TotalEnergies to emphasise its clean energy investments

Potential legal precedent

French court convicts TotalEnergies over misleading climate claims

A worker holds a plastic nurdle which washed up at Vilar beach in Corrubedo, northwestern Spain, in 2024

Building blocks of plastic products

EU parliament adopts curbs on plastic pellet pollution

The Airbus site in Toulouse, France, where the merged European satellite group will be based

Leading aerospace groups combine

Europe plans satellite powerhouse to rival Musk's Starlink

A vendor cuts meat at a pork stall at a local traditional market in Keelung. Taiwan has culled dozens of pigs after detecting its first cases of African swine fever

Measures imposed swiftly

Taiwan detects first cases of swine fever

Fossil fuel companies have been criticised for their environmental claims

Under legal attack

Oil and gas majors stick to their guns on climate advertising

Some endangered species

S.Africa seeks to save birds from wind turbine risks

Malaysian experts and officials admit that resources fall far short of what is needed to protect the country's famed big cat, listed as critically endangered

National animal

Tigers in trouble as Malaysian big cat numbers dwindle

Antonio Guterres said overshooting the 1.5C target was now inevitable

Antonio Guterres

Overshooting 1.5C climate target 'inevitable': UN chief

The Los Angeles wildfires were likely the costliest in history, with insured losses reaching an estimated $60 billion, according to a climate disasters database

Billions in damages

Scrapped by Trump, revived US climate-disaster database reveals record losses

UN chief Antonio Guterres and US President Donald Trump are on opposite sides of the global climate debate

UN chief calls for 'fight' against climate disinformation

Tunisian city on general strike over factory pollution

The vets took sperm from Baruto, an Amur leopard, to inseminate Khala

Breeding programme

Artificial insemination raises hopes for world's rarest big cat

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