Nature

From nature finance to invasive species: What’s at stake at COP17?

Biodiversity goals are off track as the UN nature summit faces funding and political tensions on its final day.

30 October 2026

Earth News

'Pull out all the stops': UN lays out path to limiting global warming

“Every additional fraction of a degree and additional year of warming above 1.5°C increases climate impacts and risks, such as the deadly floods, heatwaves and wildfires that have plagued many nations this year”.

21 October 2026

Earth News

‘End handouts’ for fossil fuels, urges UN chief ahead of COP17

Fossil fuels are 'boiling our planet', says Guterres. Yet COP31 hosts Türkiye and Australia are expanding them, a new report shows.

16 October 2026

Earth News

Why Europe’s farmers need more than drought-resistant crops to survive

World Food Day: Europe is ‘losing hundreds of farms a day’. Crop diversification and subsidies that pay for outcomes could save them, farmers say.

16 October 2026

Nature

200 nations made a pact to protect nature. Now, they face a reckoning

Game-changing global nature pact still has potential – but nations need to speed up progress, conservationists urge.

12 October 2026

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Tens of thousands march in Brussels demanding urgent climate action

Tens of thousands of people marched through Brussels on Sunday, 11 October, demanding stronger action on climate change ahead of next month's COP31 summit in Antalya, Turkey.

12 October 2026

Earth News

Electrification, climate finance and crises: What to expect at COP31

The UN talks in Antalya next month will be backdropped by the energy crisis, extreme heat and Nepal's flood disaster.

6 October 2026

Earth News

How extreme heat is putting mothers and newborns at risk

73 per cent of maternal healthcare workers surveyed say they have seen heat-linked cases rise in the last five years.

5 October 2026