Can pornography help save Tasmania’s rainforests? Kirsha Kaechele hopes so
The ‘first lady’ of Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art has launched an OnlyFans portal with an ambitious – and controversial – goal
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‘You cannot build peace on a burning planet,’ UN chief tells Cop31 in farewell speech
António Guterres says climate action central to every aspect of UN’s work, as leaders depart Cop31 and talks go on
California governor Gavin Newsom endorses global fossil fuel phaseout
Newsom is the most prominent US politician at Cop31, a process the Trump administration continues to boycott
Right to make green challenges to planning decisions under threat, say UK lawyers
Exclusive: Government in ‘private meetings’ about removing cost cap protections under Aarhus convention
Cop31 as it happened: ‘You cannot build peace on a burning planet’, warns UN chief Guterres in final climate summit speech
Debate over climate science, transition away from fossil fuels, electrification and climate finance can begin in earnest as world leaders leave UN summit
New York is running out of room for its waste even with Statue of Liberty-sized landfill
One company is proposing elongating the life of the dump, pungent smell and all, several more decades
A super El Niño brings startling changes for marine life on California coast: ‘like nothing we’ve ever seen’
Water temperatures are climbing the charts, high tides are swallowing the shoreline and vital parts of the food web that feed ocean diversity are disappearing
El Niño will increase risk of death in childbirth for millions, say midwives
Effects of extreme weather expected in countries that already have high maternal and newborn death rates
Children’s exposure to home wood-burning could be as significant as traffic exhaust, study suggests
Research finds highest levels of cancer-related PAH pollutants in cities that have widespread wood heating
Country diary: Why did some trees fall in the storms and others not? It could be spalting | Kate Blincoe
Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: The woodland floor is littered with sycamore and ash, some revealing a pattern that runs through trunks like words in a stick of rock
World is now in ‘age of electricity’, energy agency chief says
Exclusive: Fossil fuels no longer dominant energy source, IEA leader says, as summit considers electrification pledge
‘El Niño turned off the taps’: factors behind Indonesia’s wildfires revealed
Country’s fiercest blazes in at least a decade produced toxic smog blamed for 400,000 respiratory infections
Be sea-ing you: humpback whale spotted in New York’s Hudson River
Sightings of the species are becoming increasingly common as experts worry about danger posed by busy waterways
Trump the ‘biggest loser’ for scrapping climate action, John Kerry says at Cop31
Kerry decries president for ceding clean-energy dominance to China and says climate crisis still a key issue for voters
KKR and RWE are rich firms. Why do they need a UK state loan for their windfarms? | Nils Pratley
National wealth fund is to lend £1bn towards the Vanguard projects – but whether the private equity giant needed help is debatable
Bird flu has caused catastrophic die-offs – could a wave of extinctions follow?
As the IUCN global conservation body prepares to update its red list of endangered species, scientists explain why calculating the true toll of a pandemic is so hard
Why are Britain's streets still so polluted? Because the car industry dinosaurs do what they like, and politicians let them | George Monbiot
The transition to electric vehicles should be moving apace, but it is not. And why? Incompetence, expedience and cowardice