New research suggests 55m-year-old eggshells likely belong to extinct mekosuchine crocodiles, nicknamed ‘drop crocs’ for theory they climbed trees to hunt
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Scientists have identified what are believed to be the oldest crocodilian eggshells ever found in Australia, unearthed in a grazier’s back yard in regional Queensland.
The 55m-year-old eggshells – found at a fossil deposit in Murgon, approximately 270km north-west of Brisbane – likely belong to a group of extinct crocodiles known as mekosuchines, new research suggests.
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11/11/2025 - 09:00
11/11/2025 - 09:00
The public stoush is really about whether the party will drop the charade or maintain it while shuffling some words
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The best thing that can be said about the Coalition’s internal brawl over whether to abandon its support for reaching net zero emissions by 2050 is that it has some honesty in it. Not much honesty, but if you look closely you may see some light breaking through.
The federal Liberals and Nationals have never supported the idea of reaching net zero by 2050. Some individual MPs have, but not the parties. We know this because they have not backed a policy to help meet it since Scott Morrison adopted the target in 2021 to try to deflect rising pressure at home and abroad.
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11/11/2025 - 07:59
Christiana Figueres tells summit that decarbonisation of global economy is inevitable despite disruptive Trump presidency
“Ciao, bambino!” That was the message Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the United Nations framework convention on climate change, had for the US upon its recent exit from the Paris Climate Agreement.
The world’s largest historical emitter also chose not to send a delegation to the negotiations. “I think it actually is a good thing,” Figueres said about the US’s absence from the talks at a press conference on Tuesday.
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11/11/2025 - 07:00
How do you plan for an event whose timing is unknown? For residents of Tofino on Vancouver Island the threat is distant but signs of preparedness are everywhere
Justin Goss was in the shower when he first heard the piercing wail of a nearby tsunami early-warning siren. Still dripping wet, he threw on clothes, grabbed his dog and rushed to the truck. The pair made it 3 metres and no further.
“The whole parking lot across the street was jammed up. It was complete gridlock within three minutes,” he says. “I thought, ‘Oh shit, this is not good.’”
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11/11/2025 - 04:04
Company failed to effectively operate, maintain and upgrade its wastewater assets, Ofwat finds
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Wessex Water has been ordered to pay £11m over wastewater failures and told to spend it on improvements to reduce sewage spills and other measures.
Ofwat, the industry regulator for England and Wales, said that Wessex Water and its shareholders would fund a total enforcement package of £11m, none of which will be paid for by customers through bills.
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11/11/2025 - 03:00
Environmentalists seeking to end logging, smuggling and pollution in DRC’s Mangrove Marine park faced threats, violence and rape
People who have tried to expose unlawful ownership and profit-making from protected land in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have faced threats, violence and rape, an investigation has found.
The DRC government hired the conservation worker Kim Rebholz in 2022 to safeguard the Mangrove Marine park, an internationally recognised nature reserve on the country’s tiny coastline. The Congo basin rainforest, to the east, is the largest rainforest after the Amazon.
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11/11/2025 - 02:06
Rightwing lobby group’s email blitz targets party ahead of Liberal shadow ministry meeting at 9am on Thursday
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The rightwing lobby group Advance has launched a last-minute lobbying campaign to pressure Liberal MPs to dump a net zero emissions target at a special meeting in Canberra on Wednesday.
The campaign group emailed supporters on Tuesday afternoon urging them to flood the inboxes of Liberal MPs with a generic anti-net zero message in the hours leading up to the crunch talks.
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11/11/2025 - 00:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 11 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00154-1
Climate-resilient fisheries are more resilient in general
11/10/2025 - 22:42
The failure by state governments to do anything about pollution means it has often been met with apathy. But at a rare protest anger and frustration were rife
As a familiar smoky evening haze gathered over Delhi, the crowd began to assemble in their hundreds. Mothers and children, students, retirees and environmentalists were all united by a basic but desperate demand: the right to breathe safely in India’s capital.
“Delhi is not a liveable city any more, it’s a death trap,” said Radhika Aggarwal, 33, an engineer who joined the protest on Sunday.
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11/10/2025 - 19:01
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
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China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, analysis reveals, adding evidence to the hope that the world’s biggest polluter has managed to hit its target of peak CO2 emissions well ahead of schedule.
Rapid increases in the deployment of solar and wind power generation – which grew by 46% and 11% respectively in the third quarter of this year – meant the country’s energy sector emissions remained flat, even as the demand for electricity increased.
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