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‘These weird crocs were all over the place’: Australia’s oldest crocodile eggshells unearthed in Queensland back yard

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:00:04 +0000

New research suggests 55m-year-old eggshells likely belong to extinct mekosuchine crocodiles, nicknamed ‘drop crocs’ for theory they climbed trees to hunt

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The spectacular nonsense of the Coalition’s internal brawl over the 2050 net zero emissions target | Clear air

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:00:02 +0000

The public stoush is really about whether the party will drop the charade or maintain it while shuffling some words

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Cop30 live: Ethiopia to host Cop32 – but fight to host Cop31 continues

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:59:57 +0000

Tuesday’s thematic day covers a gamut of topics ranging from adaptation and the bioeconomy to cities and infrastructure. But for the bigger topics of emissions and finance, nations are still setting out their positions.

If you worry about your carbon footprint but still find yourself tossing out mouldy bread or expired milk, you are not alone.

Just 30 countries attending COP30 include food loss or waste in their national climate action plans, a new analysis has found, missing out on what its authors call a “huge opportunity” to cut planet-heating pollution.

Waiting for the tsunami: its big waves are loved by surfers – but this Canadian town is braced for disaster

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:00:54 +0000

How do you plan for an event whose timing is unknown? For residents of Tofino on Vancouver Island the threat is distant but signs of preparedness are everywhere

Justin Goss was in the shower when he first heard the piercing wail of a nearby tsunami early-warning siren. Still dripping wet, he threw on clothes, grabbed his dog and rushed to the truck. The pair made it 3 metres and no further.

“The whole parking lot across the street was jammed up. It was complete gridlock within three minutes,” he says. “I thought, ‘Oh shit, this is not good.’”

Wessex Water must pay £11m over wastewater failures, says regulator

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:04:23 +0000

Company failed to effectively operate, maintain and upgrade its wastewater assets, Ofwat finds

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Wessex Water has been ordered to pay £11m over wastewater failures and told to spend it on improvements to reduce sewage spills and other measures.

Violent reprisals after DRC whistleblowers discover profiteering in protected land

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:00:12 +0000

Environmentalists seeking to end logging, smuggling and pollution in DRC’s Mangrove Marine park faced threats, violence and rape

People who have tried to expose unlawful ownership and profit-making from protected land in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have faced threats, violence and rape, an investigation has found.

Advance launches last-minute lobbying campaign pressuring Liberal MPs to dump net zero target

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:06:24 +0000

Rightwing lobby group’s email blitz targets party ahead of Liberal shadow ministry meeting at 9am on Thursday

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The rightwing lobby group Advance has launched a last-minute lobbying campaign to pressure Liberal MPs to dump a net zero emissions target at a special meeting in Canberra on Wednesday.

Climate-resilient fisheries are more resilient in general

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 11 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00154-1

Climate-resilient fisheries are more resilient in general

‘I can’t breathe in this city’: inaction over Delhi’s suffocating pollution sparks rare protest

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 03:42:31 +0000

The failure by state governments to do anything about pollution means it has often been met with apathy. But at a rare protest anger and frustration were rife

As a familiar smoky evening haze gathered over Delhi, the crowd began to assemble in their hundreds. Mothers and children, students, retirees and environmentalists were all united by a basic but desperate demand: the right to breathe safely in India’s capital.

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:01:03 +0000

World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

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China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, analysis reveals, adding evidence to the hope that the world’s biggest polluter has managed to hit its target of peak CO2 emissions well ahead of schedule.