It is the first whale to have died out of 15 entangled in shark nets on Australia’s east coast so far this year
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A humpback whale calf has been found dead after becoming entangled in a shark net off the New South Wales coast.
The 8-metre juvenile whale was found wrapped in netting north of Wollongong on Tuesday, in waters between Coledale and Wombarra.
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10/28/2025 - 19:01
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world, a major report on the health impact of the climate crisis has revealed.
It says the world’s addiction to fossil fuels also causes toxic air pollution, wildfires and the spread of diseases such as dengue fever, and millions each year are dying owing to the failure to tackle global heating.
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10/28/2025 - 19:01
Exclusive: Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
The US’s super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the world’s poorest 10%, according to an analysis provided to the Guardian.
These billionaires and multimillionaires, who comprise the wealthiest 0.1% of the US population, are also running down our planet’s safe climate space at 183 times the rate of the global average.
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10/28/2025 - 12:54
Minister says parish of St Elizabeth is ‘under water’ and that families are trapped in their homes in the community of Black River in western Jamaica
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Hurricane Melissa has made landfall as a category 5 storm in Jamaica, battering the country with ferocious winds, heavy flood waters and landslides from one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history.
Jamaica’s minister of local government, Desmond Mckenzie, said on Tuesday afternoon that the south-western parish of St Elizabeth was “under water” and that at least three families were trapped in their homes in the community of Black River in western Jamaica. Emergency services were struggling to reach due them to the dangerous conditions, he said. He declined to confirm whether there were any deaths.
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10/28/2025 - 11:43
Slow-moving giant makes landfall and will linger over the island before slamming into Cuba
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Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since record-keeping began in 1851.
The slow-moving giant hit the island on Tuesday afternoon and is expected to linger, moving diagonally through it until heading on to slam into Cuba, with impacts also expected in Haiti and the Bahamas.
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10/28/2025 - 11:26
Billionaire’s statement comes a day after UN said humanity missed 1.5C climate target and warned of devastation
Bill Gates has called for a “strategic pivot” in the effort against the climate crisis, writing that the world should shift away from trying to limit rising temperatures to instead focusing on efforts to prevent disease and poverty.
Writing on his Gates Notes website, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder criticized what he described as a “doomsday view of climate change” which is focusing “too much on near-term emissions goals”.
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10/28/2025 - 10:04
Exclusive: Firms say added costs would mean they are unable to install enough turbines to meet green energy goals
Offshore windfarm companies may be exempted from new UK nature rules in an attempt to keep down the cost of renewable energy, the Guardian has learned.
The energy firms have said they would be unable to build the vast number of turbines required to meet the government’s green electricity goals if they have to meet new rules for nationally significant infrastructure projects (Nsips).
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10/28/2025 - 09:00
Exclusive: Briefing by conservative thinktank Centre for Independent Studies was arranged by a Coalition backbench committee
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Coalition MPs weighing up whether to abandon net zero have been briefed on research that argues “heat deaths aren’t a thing”, plays down the prospect of substantial sea level rises and claims “no one has ever made low-cost energy” from wind and solar.
Guardian Australia has viewed slides from a presentation the conservative thinktank Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) gave to MPs in Canberra this week, along with the findings of private polling on net zero.
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10/28/2025 - 09:00
From 2040 onwards the average year for marine ecosystems is likely to be more extreme than the worst years experienced up until 2015, researchers say
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Australia’s oceans will enter “uncharted territory” by 2040 due to global heating, even if significant emissions cuts occur, new research has found.
Australian researchers modelled ocean conditions under four scenarios, including current, high- and low-emissions futures. They found that in 15 years, marine ecosystems would be facing extreme heat, oxygen loss and acidity conditions.
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10/28/2025 - 08:00
Claimants seek compensation from RWE and Heidelberg Materials after extreme flooding destroyed harvests
A group of Pakistani farmers whose livelihoods were devastated by floods three years ago has fired the starting shot in legal action against two of Germany’s most polluting companies.
Lawyers acting for 43 men and women from the Sindh region sent the energy firm RWE and the cement producer Heidelberg formal letters before action on Tuesday warning of their intention to sue later this year.
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