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The EU agreed to target a 90-percent cut in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2040, compared to 1990 levels, after marathon overnight talks

Criticised by environmentalists

EU strikes last-ditch deal on climate targets as COP30 looms

Russia has more forest than any other country on Earth

Natural defence at risk

UN says forests should form key plank of COP30

French environment minister Monique Barbut warned turning up empty-handed to the UN's COP30 talks in Belem would spell 'disaster' for the EU

Would 'undermine credibility'

No deal yet on EU climate targets as COP30 looms

Non-fossil fuels hit half of India's installed energy capacity, but that has not translated into generation

Climate diplomacy heavyweight

Green goals versus growth needs: India's climate scorecard

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (L) and his Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, chat during a meeting in Belem

Climate comeback

Brazil's climate wins ahead of COP30

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks with foreign media ahead of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil on November 4, 2025

1,5-degree treshold might be met by 2035

Brazil's Lula urges less talk, more action at COP30 climate meet

The United Nations says that big polluting nations are not cutting greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to keep global warming within safer levels.

Catastrophic consequences

World on track to dangerous warming as emissions hit record high: UN

China is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases but is also installing more renewable energy sources than any other country

Living contradiction

Biggest emitter, record renewables: China's climate scorecard

Belem in northern Brazil is known as the gateway to the Amazon rainforest

Decade since Paris Agreement

Trees, targets and trillions: what's on the agenda at COP30?

Born and raised on the banks of the Tapajos River in northern Brazil, where he opened the first of his six restaurants, Jennings says that sustainability, for him, is about balance

Rainforest flavours

Why an Amazon chef said no to a vegan dinner for Prince William event

Climate change and nature are issues the 43-year-old heir has long championed

Prince William plays football, volleyball in Rio on climate trip

Residents help move food supplies at a community center before distribution to the Whitehouse community in Westmoreland, Jamaica, one of the areas most severely affected by the passage of Hurricane Melissa

One week after landfall

Jamaicans mobilize aid in aftermath of Melissa's wreckage

A decline in Amazon deforestation under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is credited with helping Brazil achieve its biggest annual fall in greenhouse gas emissions in 15 years

Greenhouse gases

Brazil records biggest annual fall in emissions in 15 years: report

Esther (L) and Rio (R) are just two of the many chimpanzees the park has saved

Sierra Leone chimpanzee sanctuary reopens after deforestation protest

Britain's Prince William joined Rio de Janeiro's mayor Eduardo Paes on the famous Sugarloaf Mountain at the start of a visit raising awareness of global climate issues

Receiving keys to the city

Prince William awed by Rio on climate-focused trip to Brazil

Thousands of residents have been evacuated on the Philippines' Samar island as Typhoon Kalmaegi neared

Due to make landfall

Tens of thousands shelter as typhoon slams into Philippines

Using eight electrolysers powered by solar and wind energy, the plant will produce around eight tonnes of hydrogen a day in its first phase

HySynergy project

Denmark inaugurates rare low-carbon hydrogen plant

Mazon resigned a year after the Valencia floods, Spain's deadliest natural disaster in a generation

Spain regional leader resigns, a year after deadly floods

Plastic-wrapped waste bales stored outside a recycling plant on the Greek island of Corfu, part of a groundbreaking waste-management programme

As clock ticks down, Greece tries to clean up its act on waste

The CMS-03 satellite is an upgraded version of the rocket that launched India's unmanned craft that landed on the Moon in August 2023

Ambitious programme

India space agency launches its heaviest satellite

Each winter, thick smog chokes New Delhi and its 30 million residents

Very little rainfall

India's cloud seeding trials 'costly spectacle'

The United States has confirmed it will not send any top-level officials to the COP30 climate talks in Brazil

Trump instead boosts fossil fuels

US not sending any high-level officials to COP30

3I/ATLAS

A visitor from another star

What 3I/ATLAS really is – and what it definitely is not

Milky Way in Schimpach (Eislek)

No telescope needed

Long nights and a meteor shower: Your guide to November's skies

Engineering students and guests watch robots battle it out at Iran's Tech Olympics

Iranian tech prodigies battle it out with robots

Three-month mission

Explorers seek ancient Antarctica ice in climate change study

US President Donald Trump first made his surprise testing announcement by social media post

Surprise directive

Trump keeps world guessing with shock nuclear test order

An aerial view seen October 29, 2025 shows the destroyed Black River Market and surrounding buildings following the passage the previous day of Hurricane Melissa in Black River, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica

Bearing down on Bermuda

Nearly 50 dead after Hurricane Melissa thrashes Caribbean

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