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For the first time in 113 years, live data is streaming from the top of the UK's tallest mountain.

Big fossil-fuel-based utilities are overcharging their customers, going on a “'gorging spree” while they still can.

Commercial solar growth helps push Australia's total PV installs to 107MW in October, almost guaranteeing 1GW record for 2017.

Booming of male bitterns reveals presence of at least 164 of the heron-like waders living in British wetlands, says charity

Populations of the bittern, a wetland bird that was facing extinction in the UK in the late 1990s, are at a record high, conservationists report.

Resident numbers of “Britain’s loudest bird” increased in 2017, and experts – using the foghorn-like booming call of the males to survey the species – have counted at least 164 birds at 71 sites.

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Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, David Papps, and river operators are working together to improve ecological outcomes in the lower Darling.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder today announced the appointment of six permanent local engagement officers to work with communities to protect rivers and wetlands across the Murray Darling Basin.

Jinko sets new efficiency record for PERC solar cell and sees big future in "half cell" modules.

Long time far from home, with great views... the International Space Station is not your typical holiday spot.

Irish company DP Energy unveils major expansion of its Port Augusta hybrid renewable energy park, adding another 300MW of solar and 400MW of battery storage as South Australia continues to hurtle towards near 100 per cent renewable energy.

Astronomers discover the celestial equivalent of a horror film villain: a star that wouldn't stay dead.

To meet the goal of the Paris Climate Agreement to keep future warming 'well under two degrees, no new coal or gas resources should be opened up in Australia, says a new report from the Climate Council.

In1850, the Micronesian island of Nahlapenlohd was the scene of Pohnpei state's first battle involving cannons and muskets. Less than two centuries later, it has sunk beneath the waves. Patrick D. Nunn, Professor of Geography, Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Re-live the talked-about moment when an eel suffers the consequences of diving into a brine pool for food.

Decline in seasons | Closure of Seer Green post office | Boris Johnson journalism fund | Government by dirty old men

I’ve not seen any wasps either, now that you mention it (Letters, 4 November). What I have seen are the first daffodils of the spring – in November, when autumn hasn’t properly happened yet. Oaks and ashes are still holding their green leaves. I expect winter-flowering cherry, winter camellias, winter iris and daffs “January” and “February Gold” to make early appearances (and to be reported on the letters page as prodigious), but along the grass verges of the North Circular Road, seeded with spring bulbs, dainty, yellow and orange narcissi bobbed in the slipstream of the traffic on 3 November. Is there now a worrying decline in seasons?
Ilona Jesnick
London

• The real tragedy of the closure of the post office in Seer Green, Buckinghamshire (Letters, 4 November) is that there will no longer be the facility in the village for its inhabitants to draw their pensions and benefits. Many who do not drive, such as my brother, rely on this service to collect the money that they live off. It is also a vital asset in providing other postal services, as well as newspapers, cards, stationary and confectionary.
Elizabeth Rawlins
Newcastle upon Tyne

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Hassan was born with skin so delicate it would tear and blister

New proposals to limit CO2 from passenger cars and vans by 2030 would meet climate goals, but campaigners say regulations fall short

The European commission has unveiled new proposals for limits on carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars and vans, which would compel manufacturers to cut emissions from their vehicles by nearly a third from 2030.

But the proposals will not require manufacturers to make a fixed quota of their fleet run on electricity, as some campaigners had hoped.

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The world’s nations are meeting in Bonn, Germany, for the 23rd annual “conference of the parties” (COP) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which aims to prevent dangerous global warming. This year, Fiji plays president and meeting the Paris climate goals are top of the agenda

• The COP23 climate change summit in Bonn and why it matters

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The animals have demonstrated the ability to recognise familiar human faces, according to a study.

We are binning nearly half of the fresh spuds we buy. But stashing some in the freezer can save time and make for extra-crunchy roasties

Proof, as if more proof were needed, that Britain is heading to hell in a handcart, comes with the news that we waste nearly half the potatoes we buy, throwing a shameful 2.7m potential roasties or jackets in the bin every day.

The blame could be laid at the door of supermarkets, who insist on selling spuds in vast, plastic-wrapped quantities; decant them into a cool, dark place unless using immediately. And don’t be put off if they start sprouting in the gloom; simply cut off any unnerving proboscises or green patches, before cooking.

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Not far from the UN climate talks taking place in Bonn, activists frustrated with slow progress by governments are turning up the heat at the Hambach opencast mine, highlighting Germany’s failure to live up to its green pledges

A giant black mark on Germany’s environmental record is scarred on the land an hour’s drive from the venue of this year’s UN climate talks in Bonn.

Stretching 85 kilometres wide and 400 metres deep, the opencast coalmine near Hambach forest is the biggest hole in Europe and one of the biggest single sources of carbon on the continent.

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