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Climate-linked bushfire warning as Tasmania’s ancient forests blaze
NEWS: Global warming is raising the fire threat across southern Australia, says Climate Institute, as 1,000-year old trees burn
Greenpeace ‘fracks’ UK parliament as public inquiry starts
NEWS: Campaign group installs mock fracking rig and drill in London on day independent panel review of Lancashire applications begins
EU faces two-year wrangle to ratify Paris climate deal
ANALYSIS: Members of 28-state bloc show little appetite for increasing ambition as they gear up for internal battles over effort-sharing
World’s first cactus-powered plant opens in Mexico
NEWS: Pilot scheme will run cars and a small power plant on biogas from prickly pear harvested in Michoacan state
US military to war game climate change threats
NEWS: Directive from Pentagon calls for climate focus at all levels of armed forces; urging commanders to prepare troops for operations in extreme conditions
No monkeying around: China state control threatens climate agenda
ANALYSIS: Beijing’s bold economic reform plans could speed emissions cuts – but can they coexist with a crackdown on free speech?
Is climate change driving the spread of zika virus?
NEWS: Record temperatures could be creating the conditions for a spike in the number of disease-carrying mosquitoes, scientists say
Nepal targets 80% renewables as fuel blockade bites
NEWS: Landlocked nation plans hydropower and solar rollout in belated submission to UN climate deal, citing energy security concerns
Obama proposes $10 oil tax to fund clean transport
NEWS: Mooted levy to pay for high speed rail, self-driving cars and public transport heats up climate debate in presidential election year
Cleared rainforest bounces back faster than thought – study
NEWS: Recovering forests’ uptake of carbon dioxide outstrips pristine jungle and could play a bigger role in countering climate change
Morocco opens first stage of vast solar power plant
NEWS: Noor 1 concentrated solar plant will provide enough electricity for more than a million homes when finished
Outrage as Australia’s CSIRO cuts climate science jobs
NEWS: Climate question ‘has been answered’ says chief executive of top science agency, expressing high hopes for coal-to-diesel technology
Pacific trade deal bad news for climate, say activists
NEWS: NGOs warn Trans-Pacific Partnership could undermine Paris climate pact; Obama says it observes strongest environmental safeguards in history
Leaky carbon markets cast shadow over EU steel says lobbyist
INTERVIEW: Pay-to-pollute rules in some countries, but not in others are ‘worst possible solution’, says industry head
EU-funded deforestation clampdown in Africa ‘flawed’
NEWS: Expanding protected areas in DR Congo and Liberia could blow donors’ budgets, displace hundreds of thousands of people and fuel conflict, says NGO
Tax high carbon food, sugar for climate and health gains – study
NEWS: A carbon levy would cut consumption of meat and cheese, find researchers – and coupled with a sugar tax, it could save lives
Africa needs digital revolution to handle climate change – World Bank
NEWS: Governments, local communities and farmers need better weather data, says top funder as part of drive to get planet connected to internet by 2020
Paris empowers Obama to impose deeper carbon cuts – lawyers
NEWS: UN climate deal gives the US president a free hand to demand stronger emissions curbs from states, argue legal experts
Polish districts call for coal-free development
NEWS: Local leaders are fighting proposals from Warsaw to zone off lignite reserves for future mines, fearing loss of homes and forests
Pandemics, killer robots and climate change ‘urgent’ security fears
NEWS: Mass migration and resource wars billed as potential consequences if governments ignore potential of Paris deal and Earth keeps warming