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The leashed beasts may look like large powerful dogs, but they still have the wild heart of a wolf.

Carbon market analysts have raised their medium-term EU carbon price forecasts by as much 18% on the view that coal-to-gas fuel switching potential will be exhausted sooner than previously thought.

European carbon hit a fresh three-week high on Wednesday, whipsawing around for another session as EUAs continue to be directed by Brexit-fuelled fluctuations in the British pound.

Researchers grow brains in a lab and discover that human neurons develop more slowly than those of other primates.

Monitoring trip returns from ‘stronghold’ for species without finding a single sawfish

Numbers of endangered sawfish in one of their most globally important strongholds are dropping, with conservationists calling for a rules that will cut the numbers of animals being caught in commercial fishing nets in north Queensland.

In September, a two-week private expedition to monitor and tag sawfish in the Norman River, Queensland, returned without finding a single sawfish.

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Several big-emitting Asian nations are considering stepping up their low-ball Paris emission pledges as they discover viable alternatives to coal and a limited role for emissions trade under Article 6, according to the operational head of intergovernmental body GGGI.

The team behind the Bloodhound supersonic car is in Northern Cape to start running the vehicle.

Anti-nuclear campaigner who targeted the Sellafield complex in Cumbria and became a respected expert on the industry

For 30 years Martin Forwood, who has died of cancer aged 79, was a thorn in the side of the huge Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria. With his unrivalled collection of original documents on the nuclear industry he was a more reliable source of information to journalists and campaigners than the government-owned industry British Nuclear Fuels, or anyone in Whitehall.

But Martin was not just an armchair campaigner; he went in for many imaginative direct actions, including, in 2003, chaining himself to a railway line to halt a nuclear waste shipment from Italy destined for Sellafield. When he came up in court charged with a Victorian-era offence of obstructing the railway, which carried a potential sentence of life imprisonment, the judge acknowledged his sincerity, reduced the charge and fined him.

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The Guardian columnist and environmental activist George Monbiot was arrested on Wednesday for defying a London-wide police ban on Extinction Rebellion protests

• Today, I aim to get arrested. It is the only real power climate protesters have | George Monbiot
  
• Extinction Rebellion lawyers apply for judicial review over protest ban
  

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The agency reveals a prototype for a spacesuit for all shapes and sizes to be worn for lunar missions.

London Zoo has announced that a maidenhair fern that is part of its Rainforest Life exhibition has taken its own picture. It’s a bit blurry, but at least he’s not camera shy

Name: Pete.

Occupation: Plant.

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The Duke of Cambridge calls for more education and awareness during a visit to northern Pakistan.

Critics condemn move placing thousands of square miles of rainforest under control of international companies

The Ivory Coast’s dwindling rainforests could be “wiped out” under a new law that will see legal protections removed from thousands of square miles of classified forest and unprecedented power handed to industrial chocolate manufacturers.

Civil society groups, environmental campaigners and workers’ cooperatives have warned that the new forestry code, ratified by the National Assembly and currently being implemented, will encourage unsustainable cocoa production and legalise large-scale deforestation in already ravaged areas.

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Request for expedited hearing comes after Metropolitan police impose section 14 order

Lawyers for Extinction Rebellion have filed an urgent application for a judicial review hearing at the high court in London, as the number of arrests in 10 days of demonstrations rose to 1,642 with 133 charged.

The request was filed at the royal courts of justice on the Strand just after 10am on Wednesday. It comes after the Metropolitan police imposed a section 14 order on Monday night, in effect banning all protest by XR in the capital.

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UK-based team to chart unprecedented waters with fully autonomous sea journey.

The coffins, whose decorations are still visible, were uncovered at a Theban necropolis near Luxor.

National Farmers’ Federation calls for a ‘new approach’ for future dry spells

Farmers are calling on the government to develop a new drought policy that ends an “ad hoc” and reactive approach to drought, saying government efforts to date have been a national failure.

The National Farmers’ Federation signed off on a drought policy framework on Wednesday, calling for a “new approach” for future dry spells, while saying the plan would not address the current situation facing farmers.

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From the ‘food belt’ co-ops of Liège to Tooting’s pop-up village green and London as a giant park: environmentalist Rob Hopkins’ book looks at imaginative local initiatives for a better, sustainable life

It’s not easy to be a happy environmentalist, but Rob Hopkins might have found a way. In 2005, together with a group of friends in Totnes, Devon, he co-founded what became known as the Transition movement. It seeks to make the world a sustainable place to live, not through protest or resistance, but simply by looking at where you live and making it sustainable. “It’s not that difficult, actually,” he says.

In Totnes, they connected neighbours to share unused gardens. They planted fruit and nut trees in public spaces and bought their own mill. They are now building 27 sustainable homes. And Totnes is just one of the 992 initiatives all over the world that now make up the movement.

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A short glossary of the changes we’ve made to the Guardian’s style guide, for use by our journalists and editors when writing about the environment

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In addition to providing updated guidelines on which images our editors should use to illustrate the climate emergency, we have updated our style guide to introduce terms that more accurately describe the environmental crises facing the world. Our editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, said: “We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise, while also communicating clearly with readers on this very important issue”. These are the guidelines provided to our journalists and editors to be used in the production of all environment coverage across the Guardian’s website and paper:

Related: The urgency of climate crisis needed robust new language to describe it | Paul Chadwick

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The Queensland government in Australia is looking to buy over 90,000 carbon credits through its CarbonPlus Fund to offset emissions from its vehicle fleet.