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Pacific island nations such as Fiji hoped to co-host next year's COP climate summit alongside Australia.

Unhappy and disappointed

Pacific islands rue lost chance to host COP climate summit

Alessandra Korap, a leader of the Munduruku people, takes part in a protest at COP30

Logistical revolution for farmers

Brazil's planned railway to Amazon draws fire on margins of COP30

Lula flew back to Belem to bring the weight of the presidency to the COP30 summit, in a rare late-stage visit by a head of state or government at the annual climate gathering

Lula pushes fossil fuel 'roadmap' back to center of COP30

Australia and Turkey both wanted to host next year's climate summit and unless one withdrew its bid, both would have missed out.

Bruising diplomatic struggle

Australia yields to Turkey in standoff over next climate summit

Women and girls face disproportionate impacts from climate change, the UN says, largely because they make up the majority of the world's poor and rely heavily on local natural resources for their livelihoods

"Harmful precedent"

COP30 dragged into clash over gender language

The low-alcohol wine drive is likely to upset more conservative French winemakers

Top French wine show risks purists' ire with alcohol-free drive

The calf will be named through a public vote from a list of options proposed by the caretakers

Threatened species

White rhino born at Spain zoo in conservation success

Kissing appears to carry high risks such as disease transmission while having no obvious reproductive or survival advantages

Monkey business: Neanderthals and ancient apes likely kissed too

Affects 1 in 3 men

The unspoken risks of HPV on male health

The lawsuit brought by farmer Hugues Falys is the first time a citizen in Belgium has brought a case against a multinational company

'Major and undeniable' responsibility

Belgian climate case pits farmer against TotalEnergies

Un bateau transporte un homme contraint par la montée des eaux d'évacuer avec ses biens son quartier des bords du lac Naivasha, dans le centre du Kenya, le 17 novembre 2025

'Never happened like this before'

Thousands of Kenyans displaced by Lake Naivasha flooding

The United States has played an outsized role in Earth observations

Undermines weather and forecasts

Without US satellites, 'we go dark', climate monitor tells AFP

Irish data centres are a quietly purring economic engine, but doubts are mounting over the environmental cost

Concerns over grid stability

Ireland's data centres power digital age, drain the grid

Brazil's Vice President and Minister of Industry and Trade Geraldo Alckmin (L) and Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva addressed the press in Belem on Monday

Draft reveals gulf between nations at summit

Lula to return to COP30 as nations under pressure to land deal

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R) and Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz hold a bilateral meeting at COP30

German Environment Minister strikes a different tone

Lula says Germany's Merz should have 'gone dancing', after Belem criticism

German Minister for Digitalisation Karsten Wildberger (C) was on hand to break ground on the project designed to bolster European AI ambitions

Catching up, at what cost?

Germany hopes new data centre can help bring 'digital sovereignty'

Trade-restrictive measures loom large

COP-and-trade? Tariffs, carbon tax weigh on climate talks

Brazil's Vice President and Minister of Industry and Trade Geraldo Alckmin (L) and Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva addressed the press in Belem on Monday

Following late night negotiations

First draft of climate pact lands at COP30 in Brazil

Rhinos are protected under a global wildlife protection convention, and international trade in their horns is prohibited

Worth more than $800,000

Singapore seizes record rhino horn haul

An adult female Masai giraffe rears on its hind legs as it resists efforts by Kenyan rangers to guide it into a transportation crate

'Stranded, stressed' giraffes in Kenya relocated as habitats encroached

COP30 official ends on Friday but UN climate talks traditionally spill into overtime

Climate talks run into night as COP30 hosts seek breakthrough

Australian Climate Minister Chris Bowen said his country is 'in it to win it' when it comes to competition to host next year's UN climate summit

Last-ditch blitz

'In it to win it': Australia doubles down on climate hosting bid

A new study aims to measure how much is too much when marine animals consume plastic

New research measures how much plastic is lethal for marine life

International Science and Invention Fair

Two young researchers from Luxembourg awarded international environmental prize

Asia's fourth-largest economy currently operates the world's seventh-largest coal fleet and is the fourth-largest coal importer, according to the PPCA

South Korea pledges to phase out coal plants at COP30

The death toll from three landslides that hit Indonesia's Java island since last week has risen to 18, with more than 30 people missing, authorities said

30 people missing

Death toll from Indonesia landslides rises to 18

CCS equipment captures CO2 at its source -- such as power plants or industrial facilities -- before it is stored in deep underground rock formations

ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP

Carbon capture promoters turn up in numbers at COP30: NGO

Turkey wants to host next year's UN climate change talks

Turkey seeks to host next COP as co-presidency plans falter

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