As the planet faces unprecedented human-caused global heating, heads of government are meeting in Turkey for the next fortnight for the latest round of climate talks. Madeleine Finlay tells co-host Ian Sample why these negotiations are so critical and what the chances are of meaningful change.

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Cop31: ‘The crisis is upon us now’ Burnham due to tell climate summit

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Cop31: ‘The crisis is upon us now’ Burnham due to tell climate summit

World leaders including Burnham will address the summit today, as talks head into the third day

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Oil slicks seen from space: the devastating impact of boat strikes on fragile Gulf ecosystems

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Oil slicks seen from space: the devastating impact of boat strikes on fragile Gulf ecosystems

Since the US war on Iran began in February, there have been hundreds of oil spills, posing a ‘generational’ threat to wildlife

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Does M John Harrison’s Booker win mean science fiction is finally accepted by a ‘snobby’ literary establishment?

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Does M John Harrison’s Booker win mean science fiction is finally accepted by a ‘snobby’ literary establishment?

Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeff VanderMeer, Olivia Laing and other writers weigh in on the publishing world’s genre wars

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The space rocket I could have been aboard explodes: Rhiannon Adam’s best photograph

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The space rocket I could have been aboard explodes: Rhiannon Adam’s best photograph

‘I was chosen to go around the Moon on a SpaceX starship. Preparations took over my life. Then, four minutes into watching a rocket on a test flight, it broke apart. And that was the end of my adventure’

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‘My classroom was 30C. No one was learning. Then I started to feel dizzy’ – This is climate breakdown

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‘My classroom was 30C. No one was learning. Then I started to feel dizzy’ – This is climate breakdown

As a UK heatwave intensified in early summer this year, the health impacts began to worsen – This is Gill’s story

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Burnham lauds £12bn offshore wind investment as he prepares for climate summit

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Burnham lauds £12bn offshore wind investment as he prepares for climate summit

Package for plan off Norfolk coast revealed as government tries to calm critics after approving Jackdaw gasfield

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Ed Miliband says national security of all countries at risk from climate crisis

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Ed Miliband says national security of all countries at risk from climate crisis

Exclusive: UK foreign secretary to tell world leaders at Cop31 summit that sci-fi scenarios of destruction ‘now regular occurrences’

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Bird flu has caused catastrophic die-offs – could a wave of extinctions follow?

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Bird flu has caused catastrophic die-offs – could a wave of extinctions follow?

As the IUCN global conservation body prepares to update its red list of endangered species, scientists explain why calculating the true toll of a pandemic is so hard

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