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Get the app, consider capacity and be ready for behavioural change: top tips on installing a home battery
Guardian readers share what they wish they had known before taking the plungeChange by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon...
Putin makes clear Russia will only play ball with Ukraine by his rules
While carefully avoiding an outright rejection of US ceasefire proposals, Moscow is playing for timeRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesFor once, the US president and European leaders were on the...
China criticises Hong Kong firm’s sale of majority stake in Panama ports
Commentary urged CK Hutchison to ‘think twice’ about ‘what position and side they are on’ in sale to US investorsBusiness live – latest updatesChina has criticised the sale of the...
Weather tracker: Cyclone Jude causes chaos in Mozambique
More than 200mm of rain fell in 24 hours, destroying 900 homes and leaving 40,000 people without powerCyclone Jude was the third cyclone to hit Mozambique this season. First spotted...
UK hoping to work with China to counteract Trump’s climate-hostile policies
Ed Miliband visits Beijing as part of plan to create global axis working in favour of climate actionEd Miliband: ‘The global battle against the climate crisis needs China’The UK is...
Fears for human rights as Peru passes ‘simply brutal’ anti-NGO law
Experts say legislation will prevent vulnerable people from accessing justice in latest government-backed crackdownHuman rights groups in Peru have voiced alarm over a controversial anti-NGO law that prevents civil society...
Fatberg weighing 30,000kg is pulled from a sewer in Western Australia
The blockage – thought to be the state’s biggest ever – was discovered at a wastewater facility during routine maintenanceGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe...
High court native title ruling may affect compensation claims nationwide, experts say
The decision upholding native title as a property right is a win for the long-running Gumatj case but is also said to have ‘long-term ramifications’Follow our Australia news live blog...
NSW bans hay imports from south-east Queensland amid fear of fire ants after Cyclone Alfred
Invasive Species Council says moratorium a ‘knee-jerk reaction’ to inadequacy of national eradication programSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterNew South Wales has temporarily banned the import of hay...
LNP accused of ‘outrageous betrayal’ after halting implementation of anti-discrimination law reform
Attorney general says legislation developed in response to Citipointe scandal could ‘create unnecessary burden on organisations and institutions’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Queensland government...
‘All the birds returned’: How a Chinese project led the way in water and soil conservation
The Loess plateau was the most eroded place on Earth until China took action and reversed decades of damage from grazing and farmingIt was one of China’s most ambitious environmental...
Taiwan’s president labels China a ‘foreign hostile force’ and ramps up security measures citing ‘infiltration’
Lai Ching-te’s speech – which included a proposal to set up military courts – prompted an angry reaction from Beijing, which called him a ‘creator of crisis’Taiwan’s new president has...