Environment

The Cabinet Office minister’s bid to become the UN’s climate change chief might have something to do with his slim majority.

Wasps are solitary insects: the adults are assassins and the young feast on the bodies of the living. Sound gruesome? That’s because it is.

Gene technology could solve the global food crisis. With the UK now free from EU regulation, public opinion is the next obstacle.

Extinction need not technically be forever: some rediscovered species had been formally declared extinct.

Bee highways are needed because bees have a limited flight capacity to find food, so patches need to be close together for the bees to reach them.

The energy regulator, Ofgem, is launching a series of compliance reviews into the practice, which critics say helps to “prop up” firms’ finances.

Rising sea levels spell trouble for North Norfolk’s hauntingly beautiful but increasingly vulnerable estuary.

The clean energy transition will be disruptive – it has to be. But to be feasible, it must be as smooth, flexible and as diverse as possible.

But the government must take radical action in its energy security strategy to put the country on the front foot.