Environment news

• Food waste report shows UK families throw away 24 meals a month
• Nick Clegg says he won’t allow government U-turn on environment
• Climate change talks: no minister to represent Australia
• Fossil fuel subsidies killing UK’s low-carbon future
• Major palm oil companies accused of breaking ethical promises
• CO2 levels hit record high

On the blogs

• The whopping climate change footprint of two Australian coalmining projects
• Why do we still waste so much food at home?
• China’s air pollution blamed for 8-year-old’s lung-cancer
• Abundant fossil fuels leave clean energy out in the cold | Damian Kahya
• Leaked IPCC report links climate change to global food scarcity
• Virginia governor’s race shows global warming science denial is a losing political stance

Multimedia

• Polar bears fight for survival as sea ice melts – video
• Letters from the Arctic 30 reveal life behind bars – video
• Autumn colours at Westonbirt Arboretum – in pictures
• The week in wildlife – in pictures

Best of the web

• Bill de Blasio’s biggest challenge is climate change | Ben Adler
• Warsaw climate talks warned time is running out to close ’emissions gap’
• China’s dam boom is an assault on its great rivers

…And finally

• Harlequin toad rediscovery raises hope for deadly fungus survivors
Scientists hopeful of finding other amphibian species presumed to have been