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Warmer weather brings multitudes of largest and noisiest varieties to east coast, with some as loud as 120 decibels

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Workers face being targets in what could be Environmental Protection Agency’s biggest upheaval since its founding

With $1tn a year needed, we analyse how best to fill the gap, from wealth taxes to levies on flying and oil extraction

Voluntary standards proposed at Cop16 focus on local like-for-like habitat projects, while critics call the issue a ‘distraction’

Delegates from nearly 200 countries join as negotiators seek increase in $100bn-a-year target for developing nations.

UN’s top climate official warns ‘no country is immune’ from climate disaster as conference begins in Azerbaijan

Governments are gathering in Azerbaijan on Monday for talks on the climate that will test wealthy nations' commitment to funding poorer ones bearing the brunt of global warming. But concerns over Baku's human rights record and deep ties to fossil fuels have cast a heavy shadow over the UN’s crucial…

Producing something ‘living, fresh and green’ for astronauts to eat on the moon and Mars among ultimate aims but first test is whether plants can survive