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A worker prepares brooms from bamboo at a roadside shop in Ahmedabad on November 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Scientists conducting a field survey in…

André Corrêa do Lago, center, the president of the COP30 climate conference in Brazil, sat as negotiators huddled in last-minute deliberations on Saturday. Andre Penner/AP hide…

Georgina RannardClimate and science correspondent, Belém, BrazilEPAFollowing bitter rows, the UN climate summit COP30 in Belém, Brazil has ended with a deal that contains no direct…

Mark Poynting and Georgina Rannard,climate and science reporters, in Belém, BrazilEPAThe summit has had a large number of delegates from indigenous groups, but some say they…

Supporters of a global phaseout of fossil fuels must find “creative” ways to keep the proposal alive, including making it voluntary rather than binding, the UK…

Georgina RannardClimate and science correspondent, in Belém, BrazilGetty ImagesMembers of the Ipereg Ayu movement, representing the indigenous Munduruku group, demoonstrated outside this year’s summitAll mention of…

Mark Poynting,Climate reporter and Matt McGrath,Environment correspondentReutersThe world’s burning of fossil fuels is set to release more planet-warming carbon dioxide than ever before this year, new…

A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, potentially threatening the health of more than 2 billion people…

As a boy, holidaying with his family in the New South Wales coastal town of Gerringong, Robert Beattie found a shell in a rock. It turned…

As world leaders gather in Brazil this year for Cop30 – the first Amazonian Cop – it’s worth doing a quick reality check on how we…