The Guardian

Chief scientist targets a zero-waste Britain to absorb the shock of global warming. By Gaby Hinsliff

Although Europeans want the benefits that Turkey can bring, they seem unwilling to fully share the good life. By Ilana Bet-El

· US and EU have broken Doha pledges, says Oxfam. · Stop Aids claims 75% of HIV patients not treated. By Sarah Boseley

There are many questions about climate change which still need answers, says Christopher Monckton. By Christopher Monckton

That is what connects the majority of the English with recent immigrants. By Billy Bragg

Looking back, 40 years on, we were intoxicated with an idea of individual freedom that was little more than greedy egotism

· Cantankerous campaigner strikes chord with voters · New milestone nears after eight terms in Congress. By Julian Borger

An American general in Baghdad called Iraq a "work of art" in progress yesterday in one of the most extraordinary attempts by the US military leadership to put a positive spin on the worsening violence. By Julian Borger

The UK is to use the warnings of irreversible climate change and the biggest economic slump since the 1930s, outlined in yesterday's Stern review, to press for a new global deal to curb carbon emissions. By Larry Elliott and Patrick Wintour

Warming of 3 or 4C will result in many millions more people being flooded. By the middle of the century 200 million may be permanently displaced due to rising sea levels, heavier floods and drought. By Hilary Osborne

· Economic review turns cost argument on head · Technologies investment 'could stimulate growth'. By James Randerson

Deaths caused by burning and internal wounds. Jerusalem denies using experimental weapon.

Offsetting makes us feel better, allows us to consume more to the benefit of the polluters, deflects attention away from the real and present danger that is climate change and, George Monbiot finds, does little good

Lecturers and university staff across Britain are to be asked to spy on "Asian-looking" and Muslim students they suspect of involvement in Islamic extremism and supporting terrorist violence, the Guardian has learned.

· Damage forecast to cost 8% of global GDP by 2100. · UK 'faces droughts and floods costing billions' By Larry Elliott

The death toll among Iraqis as a result of the US-led invasion has now reached an estimated 655,000, a study in the Lancet medical journal reports today. By Sarah Boseley

There was an ironic twist to yesterday's news. Pamuk was prosecuted under article 301 of the Turkish penal code, the use of which is encouraged by rightwing nationalists who complain that Europe is undermining the country's identity, and which must go if Turkey is to join the EU.

Last year - not long after Orhan Pamuk was tried for insulting Turkishness - an Istanbul newspaper ran an article entitled 'Who is Maureen Freely?' By Maureen Freely

Just as Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Muslim East/Middle East and the European and North American west, so Pamuk's work inhabits the shifting ground of an increasingly dangerous cultural and religious overlap, where ideologies as well as personalities collide. By Margaret Atwood

Crisis threatens parts of South America and Asia. Decline accelerates as global warming takes hold. By David Adam

Land Rover, British Gas and Coldplay are all doing it, but experts warn that the benefits of carbon offsetting may be overstated. By David Adam,

A documentary on evangelical Christian children's camps has caused uproar in the US. By Dan Glaister

Army chiefs wanted to move forces to Afghanistan but were prevented for political reasons. By Richard Norton-Taylor

· Land in East Java likely to collapse as thousands flee · Attempts to seal channels will 'probably not succeed'. By John Aglionby

Giving up a car has not been quite the liberating experience that George Monbiot had hoped

In the second of three extracts from his new book, George Monbiot wonders how we can hope to cut carbon emissions and stop climate change when our own homes are so environmentally unsound

There is no technofix to the disastrous impact of air travel on the environment, argues George Monbiot in the final extract from his new book - the only answer is to ground most of the aeroplanes flying today

As the current director of the Scientific Alliance, one of the groups named in your article on climate change (Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial, September 20), I have to register my concern at the increasing intolerance of normal scientific argument by the scientific est

For years, a network of fake citizens' groups and bogus scientific bodies has been claiming that science of global warming is inconclusive. They set back action on climate change by a decade. But who funded them? Exxon's involvement is well known, but not the strange role of Big Tobacco.

The fight for space on Spain's beaches looks set to grow fiercer over the next four decades as the sand starts to disappear under a rising sea that also threatens to flood beach-side homes, according to a Spanish environment ministry report. By Giles Tremlett