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UNESCO pushes ahead with plans to classify the Great Barrier Reef as 'endangered'

Despite opposition in Australia, UNESCO says the decision is ‘not about punishment, it’s how we preserve our heritage for future generation’.

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UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee is pushing ahead with plans to classify the Great Barrier Reef as an endangered.

1500 missing and at least 117 dead as flooding devastates parts of Europe

‘Heavy rainfall and floods are very inadequate words to describe this - it is really a catastrophe.’

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These photos from the Cologne government
show the devastation caused by the torrential rain and floods in Germany.

Turnbull calls on Morrison to back climate action

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Former PM Malcolm Turnbull has urged the government to make stronger climate change commitments.

The world’s largest iceberg has just broken off an Antarctic ice shelf

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An enormous chunk of ice bigger nearly twice the size of the ACT has broken off an Antarctic ice shelf, according to the European Space Agency.

‘Why didn’t you sort this out when you were prime minister?’

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Planning for the energy system's future is the responsibility of states, Malcolm Turnbull says.

Behaviours we were forced to adopt during COVID that we should keep

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We’ve had to adapt to a rapidly changing world over the last year but some of our newly acquired habits are worth retaining when the coronavirus pandemic ends.