Back of the net! Scotland’s historic salmon fishers – in pictures

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is the most distant human-made object from Earth. What it saw on its 50-year journey to the edge of the solar system revolutionised our understanding of the planets and ourselves

Third day of UN talks begin but leaders of many big polluting nations absent As day three of the UN climate summit kicks off, world leaders from dozens of countries are expected. But heads of government from Canada, Japan and across Europe have got lost on the road, civil society observers report. Today is the Cop31 leaders’ summit in Antalya, where world leaders are supposed to appear, hear each others’ concerns and pledge their commitment to solving the climate crisis. Continue reading...

Many governments are yet to set targets, leaving recipient countries struggling to plan and attract private investment Developing countries have been left in limbo by the failure of some of the world’s biggest economies to flesh out their plans for new climate finance. Poor countries are supposed to receive $300bn a year from the governments of industrialised nations by 2035, along with about $1tn from other sources, to help them cope with the effects of extreme weather and shift to a low-carbon

Hubs offering training in conservation work are to be set up in Torridon, Morvern and mid-Argyll.