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The government's new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won't stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot ...

Despite the relentless insistence of tech's grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable - or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back ...

Australia has to reach an EV market share for new cars of at least 50% in the next decade to achieve its 2035 emissions target, but without tougher measures that looks unlikely ...

Ignore the bombast: Steve 'build, baby, build' Reed's boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty ...

This is a man who once mocked the movements of a disabled reporter, so we'll take what schadenfreude we can get, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes ...

Even as the government and investors try to treat the Trump situation as 'normal', the US has never been less attractive to Australian holidaymakers ...

Economists on all sides agree: rather than incremental changes, this deeply unfair market needs a 'big bang' moment, says associate professor of economics and finance Josh Ryan-Collins ...

Hegseth wants journalists to only publish 'explicitly authorized' information. That is not how the free press works ...

Science tells us that foetuses develop in the uterus, rather than the placenta - but the US health secretary has a different take. Why are Republicans so clueless about women's bodies, asks Arwa Mahdawi ...

In 1982, Ronald Reagan picked up the phone to Menachem Begin to tell him to end a war. There are lessons from history and we need to learn them, says Guardian international security correspondent Jason Burke ...