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German city is hit by widespread flooding after storms battered northern and central Europe. At least six people have died in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic as a result of the weather, while fallen trees and damage to railway lines have left thousands of travellers stranded

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Dozens of octopuses have emerged from the sea at New Quay beach in west Wales. Some experts have said the strange behaviour by the cephalopods, who can’t survive on dry land for long, may be the result of injury or confusion caused by recent storms

• Mystery of octopuses found crawling along Welsh beach

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UK billionaire Sanjeev Gupta has moved quickly to leverage his new investment in Australian renewable energy and storage company Zen Energy, announcing plans for 1 gigawatt of “dispatchable” renewable generation in South Australia.

The Department of the Environment and Energy has drafted the Product Emissions Standards Rules (PES Rules) that set the emissions standards and detailed arrangements for NRSIEE.

The Regulatory Framework describes what is regulated by the Department and our role in relation to others, our regulatory principles and approach and how we will evaluate and improve.

The Department’s 2016–17 annual report was tabled today in Parliament. The report includes our annual performance statements, financial statements and legislative reports for the 2016–17 period. ...

Nuclear lobbyists – especially the self-styled 'pro-nuclear environmentalists' – are few in number. So how much longer can they keep flogging a dead horse?

A comment posted, and then deleted, by Tesla marketing has piqued interest in the EV maker's plans for Australia.

Hot and windy Spring weather saw Victorian solar and wind power generate enough to meet to 44.6 per cent of local demand on Sunday.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk today called the state election for 25 November, about two months before the three-year anniversary of Labor’s shock win in January 2015.

Wind and solar PV account for 54 per cent of demand in South Australia since the closure of Hazelwood, and the grid is still functioning.

60 Minutes interview reveals Australia's energy and environment minister has not installed rooftop solar at his family home – and why.

Geostorm is the newest addition to the Hollywood climate doom canon. It is terrible, which is why you should think about this genre but under no circumstances actually watch this movie. Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Turnbull Government is pleased to announce that ACIL Allen, in conjunction with GHD, is the successful tenderer to conduct a pre-feasibility study on the West-East Gas Pipeline.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright announced today an expansion of its Asia Pacific energy and resources offering, with three key appointments in the corporate and M&A and banking and finance teams in Australia.

Two years after the world joined together to forge the Paris Agreement on climate change, representatives from around the globe will convene on November 6 for the next round of United Nations talks.

ESB briefing raises concerns about future of 5-minute rule, its description of wind and solar as a threat to the system, and the hiring of Frontier Economics to do its modeling.

Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 3 November 1917

Surrey, November 1
Unlike the bare ground at the foot of the beech, grass spreads almost up to the root-trunk of our oaks, and fallen leaves lie thick among the bents. Underneath them are acorns, a full crop this year. It takes but a little time to collect a full sack. They are so plentiful that a litter of young pigs throw small showers upward as they nose about while they scutter along the edge of the wood. A sudden loud whirr of wings is heard. A cock pheasant, all brown and gold, goes one way just above the yet green nut-boughs; three hens fly the other. There is passing companionship, but not much more, among these birds. Rooks now chatter together in the upper branches of elms, going from one to another as though to test which will best stand the coming winter gales. The old hedger, slicing off faggot wood with his bill-hook, “reckons them as almost overwise. If they could but speak they would tell us a good deal more than we’d know.”

The air is warm, bees in something like small swarms are out on the remaining autumn flowers. St.John’s wort is here and there open on the hedge bank, and in a corner of the cornfield which has not been ploughed a few poppies bloom, but they are dull, not scarlet as in summer. The campion has not all gone, but it is foliage and fruit which to-day complete the picture of the hedgerow. This week the robins sing longer and oftener. While one pipes another will accompany you along the lane, flitting from side to side, but never far away.

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Richard Denniss says it doesn't involve curbing economic growth or even abandoning materialism.

Would you be shocked by a supermarket without carrots, potatoes or broccoli, at any time of year? But harvesting in the off-season does serious damage to our soil. Bill Cotching, Soil scientist, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.