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Under a baking sun, Indigenous people mixed with activists marched in a festive atmosphere in Belem

The 'Great People's March'

Massive march in Brazil marks first big UN climate protest in years

International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez says the strongarm negotiation tactics at the October 2025 meeting was not 'typical' of the shipping regulator

Aim to decarbonize sector by around 2050

UN regulator says shipping still wants to decarbonize -- despite US threats

Demand meeting with Lula da Silva

Indigenous protesters disrupt UN climate summit again

US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat from Rhode Island, speaks during an interview on Capitol Hill on July 8, 2025 in Washington, DC

Trump's pro-fossil-fuel policies do 'not represent the American people'

At COP30, senator warns US 'deliberately losing' clean tech race with China

Demonstrators demanded forest protection and global climate responsibility during COP30 in Belem, Brazil, a UN climate conference that one nonprofit group warned featured more than 1,000 fossil fuel lobbyists and energy industry leaders

1,602 delegates linked to oil industry

Fossil fuel lobbyists out in force at Amazon climate talks: NGOs

TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne is one of the few oil executives at COP30

Head of TotalEnergies

A rare oil CEO shows up at COP30, spars with activists

The Archeologia Arborea foundation saves fruit varieties to restore biodiversity and build resilience against climate change

Preserving agricultural heritage

Italian fruit detective racing to save forgotten varieties

Couples had to spend four days in a cabin and not make noise over 45 decibels

Sweden sees silent forests as sanctuaries from a noisy world

An estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered every year

Trashing the planet

Tobacco conference to weigh up stubbing out cigarette butts

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket lifts off for its second mission, the NG-2, from Space Launch Complex 36 at the Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida

Historic moment

Blue Origin launches NASA Mars mission and nails booster landing

Tech firms are pouring massive sums into physical AI, and Morgan Stanley predicts the world could have more than a billion humanoid robots by 2050

Soon to be commonplace?

Rise of the robots: the promise of physical AI

Security personnel clash with indigenous people and students as they storm the venue during the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil, on November 11, 2025

Brazil rebuts UN complaint about COP30 security, but boosts presence

Brazil is hosting the COP30 climate summit in Belem, a city in the country's north best known as a gateway to the Amazon.

Showdown with oil powers

Fight over fossil fuels drawdown looms at UN climate summit

An Israeli fighter jet returning to base flies above an area near Tel Aviv on September 26, 2024

Played a 'role in genocide'

25 oil-supplying states accused of 'complicity' in Gaza war

UNEP chief Inger Andersen says the world is making progress to bend the curb on global warming, just not fast enough.

We need to talk about our fossil fuel addiction: UNEP chief

Scientists earlier this year warned that bird flu had sparked the worst die-off on record for southern elephant seals

At Antarctica wildlife haven

'Bleak' future for seals decimated by bird flu, scientists warn

Australia and Turkey are both bidding to host COP31 next year and neither is backing down

Unwanted distraction

Battle brews over Australia or Turkey hosting next COP

Vast can put an astronaut into space for less than $100 million, says company advisor former NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel

Race for first private space station heats up as NASA set to retire ISS

This undated and unlocated picture shows Hitler relaxing with his mistress Eva Braun

Kallmann Syndrome

Hitler likely had genetic condition limiting sexual development: research

The landmark European law on corporate sustainability was hailed by green and civil society groups but loathed by firms

Environmental and human rights rules

Right-tilting EU parliament backs unpicking green business rules

The Zanzibar sponge cooperative has offered a new and lucrative source of income for locals

Zanzibar women turn to sponge farming as oceans heat up

Australia is campaigning to co-host next year's UN climate summit alongside Pacific Islands neighbours

Nation dependent on fossil fuel

Australia's opposition ditches commitment to net zero emissions

Belgian start-up Permafungi is pitching mushroom-based packaging as a fully biodegradable alternative to polystyrene and other plastic

Sustainable production

Mushroom material takes on plastic packaging at Belgian start-up

The forest outside Arslanbob in the Kyrgyz mountains is the world's biggest wild walnut grove

Hit by overgrasing livestock

In Kyrgyzstan, world's largest natural walnut forest thins away

Scientists say climate change was likely directly responsible for freak rains that turned the Argentine Pampas into a wetland

Farmers worried

Record rains turn Argentina's farm-filled Pampas plains to wetlands

Brazilian indigenous leader and environmentalist Chief Raoni Metuktire suggested he would give the country's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva an earful over a controversial oil exploration project

Over oil exploration

Brazil tribal chief ready to give Lula a 'talking-to'

The Aurora Australis, also known as the Southern Lights, glows on the horizon over the waters of Brighton Beach in Dunedin, New Zealand early on November 13, 2025

Spectacular displays

Solar storm brings new chance of vivid auroras, signal disruptions

Scientists found that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels will be 1.1 percent higher in 2025 than a year ago

1.5°C goal essentially 'impossible'

World's fossil fuel emissions to hit new record in 2025: study

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