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Nearly 200 nations met to push through a modest climate deal at the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem

Nearly 200 nations

COP30: Key reactions to climate deal

The COP30 climate summit has ended -- what were the major outcomes?

Flurry of drama

What did countries agree to at COP30?

Climate activists poured dye into waters in 10 Italian cities

To highlight climate collapse

Climate activists dye Venice's Grand Canal green

India's Dev Karan decided to take action when he realised that 'the climate crisis is happening everywhere'

'Your voice matters'

Teen saving India's ponds says everyone can be a leader

Nations remained deadlocked after two weeks of negotiations that were supposed to end on Friday

Tumultuous talks

UN climate talks deadlocked as EU pushes fossil-fuel phaseout

Local Japanese authorities have approved the restart of the world's biggest nuclear power facility, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa

World's biggest nuclear plant edges closer to restart

Indigenous people hold signs reading

Co-signed letter

30-plus nations oppose COP30 draft over fossil fuel omission: Colombia

A fire inside the venue of UN climate talks in Brazil has been brought under control

'The world is watching', says Guterres

Fire breaks out at UN climate talks, forcing delay at critical phase

The wolf dragged a green crab trap from the water to the shore to eat its bait in the Heiltsuk Indigenous territory of Canada

First potential tool use

Researchers stunned by wolf's use of crab traps to feed

The Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 caused widespread devastation and left many coastal communities nervous about offshore drilling

Out of step with climate goals

Trump plans massive expansion of offshore oil drilling

Detection failures are muddying an online information landscape awash with AI-generated fakes

Fact-checking nightmare

AI's blind spot: tools fail to detect their own fakes

This NASA image shows the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, circled in the center, as seen by the L'LORRI black-and-white imager on NASA's Lucy spacecraft

Comet sparks scientific fascination, online furor over 'alien' origins

In coastal Nha Trang, whole city blocks were inundated and hundreds of cars were underwater

Rescue operations underway

Vietnam flooding submerges homes, kills 41, after relentless rain

The web was discovered in a cave on the border of Greece and Albania

Spanning about half the size of a tennis court

Giant spider web found in Greek-Albanian border cave: study

Forests in countries from Liberia to Zimbabwe were targetted for the Blue Carbon agreements

Blue Carbon’s schemes stall

The case of Africa's 'vanishing' carbon deals

Pacific island nations such as Fiji hoped to co-host next year's COP climate summit alongside Australia.

Unhappy and disappointed

Pacific islands rue lost chance to host COP climate summit

Alessandra Korap, a leader of the Munduruku people, takes part in a protest at COP30

Logistical revolution for farmers

Brazil's planned railway to Amazon draws fire on margins of COP30

Lula flew back to Belem to bring the weight of the presidency to the COP30 summit, in a rare late-stage visit by a head of state or government at the annual climate gathering

Lula pushes fossil fuel 'roadmap' back to center of COP30

Australia and Turkey both wanted to host next year's climate summit and unless one withdrew its bid, both would have missed out.

Bruising diplomatic struggle

Australia yields to Turkey in standoff over next climate summit

Women and girls face disproportionate impacts from climate change, the UN says, largely because they make up the majority of the world's poor and rely heavily on local natural resources for their livelihoods

"Harmful precedent"

COP30 dragged into clash over gender language

The low-alcohol wine drive is likely to upset more conservative French winemakers

Top French wine show risks purists' ire with alcohol-free drive

The calf will be named through a public vote from a list of options proposed by the caretakers

Threatened species

White rhino born at Spain zoo in conservation success

Kissing appears to carry high risks such as disease transmission while having no obvious reproductive or survival advantages

Monkey business: Neanderthals and ancient apes likely kissed too

Affects 1 in 3 men

The unspoken risks of HPV on male health

The lawsuit brought by farmer Hugues Falys is the first time a citizen in Belgium has brought a case against a multinational company

'Major and undeniable' responsibility

Belgian climate case pits farmer against TotalEnergies

Un bateau transporte un homme contraint par la montée des eaux d'évacuer avec ses biens son quartier des bords du lac Naivasha, dans le centre du Kenya, le 17 novembre 2025

'Never happened like this before'

Thousands of Kenyans displaced by Lake Naivasha flooding

The United States has played an outsized role in Earth observations

Undermines weather and forecasts

Without US satellites, 'we go dark', climate monitor tells AFP

Irish data centres are a quietly purring economic engine, but doubts are mounting over the environmental cost

Concerns over grid stability

Ireland's data centres power digital age, drain the grid

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