A new report on the UK compiled by 53 wildlife organisations is bleak on the outlook for British nature. The State of Nature report says that more than one in 10 of the UK’s wildlife species are threatened with extinction, and the numbers of the nation’s most endangered creatures have plummeted by two-thirds since 1970. Much decline has taken place over the last three years — there are now 1,199 species listed on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List of threatened species compared to 755 three years ago, reports the Telegraph. The Times report that one in every 11 of Scotland’s native species is at risk of extinction. Farming is named as the primary culprit, but climate change and urbanisation are also putting species at risk, the report warns. The BBC, Express, iNews, Independent, and the Daily Mail all cover the story.

EU president Donald Tusk is going to raise the issue of a potential fast-track ratification of the UN climate deal at a meeting of national leaders this week, Bloomberg reports. This could mean that the EU could ratify the deal before the bloc’s 28 states have completed the process, potentially triggering entry into force. Climate and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete said it would be a “nightmare scenario” if the deal came into force without the EU. There has been a mixed reaction to this plan from member states. The UK will not participate in the summit.

Hinkley is one step closer to approval after an obstacle blocking the nuclear reactor was lifted yesterday. When Theresa May delayed the decision in the summer, she was said to be concerned that investment was dependent on ministers also backing plans for a reactor at Bradwell-on-Sea, which would use Chinese technology. However, business and energy secretary Greg Clark has now suggested that the future of Bradwell will play no part in the decision on Hinkley. Meanwhile, ITV is reporting that the government is poised to give the green light to Hinkley before the end of the week.

Ahead of a meeting of the International Maritime Organisation next month, nations have registered their views on a proposal for a greenhouse gas emissions cap for the shipping industry. Leading emerging economies China, India, Brazil and others have said that a cap would be “fundamentally unfit” for the sector, arguing instead that the focus should be on gathering fuel consumption data from ships. Such an approach would not reflect the urgency of the UN climate agreement, according to a separate coalition of 11 European, island and African states.

Global investment in energy production dropped by 8% last year, led by steep spending cuts in the American oil industry, according to a new report on energy investment by the International Energy Agency. In total, it says that investment in the industry fell to about $1.8 trillion last year, down from $2 trillion in 2014. The Telegraph reports that the global economy is becoming dangerously reliant on crude supply from political hotspots. Carbon Brief also covers the report.

Britain has recorded its warmest September day in more than 100 years, as temperatures rose to over 34C in Kent on Tuesday. In London, at Heathrow and Kew Gardens, temperatures hit 32.8C, according to the Met Office. According to NASA, August has now tied with July as the hottest month ever recorded worldwide, reports the Daily Mail.

The oil market will not rebalance next year, as a steady supply of fresh flows from OPEC countries and beyond will continue to outpace the slowdown in demand growth. This was the warning of the International Energy Agency yesterday, representing an about-face on its assessment one month ago that the market would show no surplus for the remainder of this year, according to Reuters. Earlier this week, OPEC also forecast that the market would remain oversupplied into next year, theFinancial Times reports.

Simon Jack, the BBC’s business editor, gives four reasons why he thinks the Hinkley C nuclear plant will go ahead. First, he says there has been little negative spin from politicians on the subject. Second, he says the UK is unlikely to want to pay EDF compensation costs. Third, Theresa May has now met her Chinese counterpart. And fourth, EDF has said that they have put a Welsh steelmaker as their preferred bidder on a £100m steel order for Hinkley.

A study of volume and mass changes at seven glaciers in the upper Langtang catchment in Nepal consistently shows an acceleration in glacier thinning in recent decades. Overall, the scientists calculate a thinning of 0.45 metres per year for the period 2006–2015, compared to 0.24 metres per year for the earlier period of 1974–2006. The behaviour of different glaciers appears mixed, and the presence or absence of debris does not seem to be a good predictor for ice loss trends, the paper notes.

A major global study of aquatic chemistry at 12 open ocean, coastal, and coral reef locations suggests open ocean subtropical and subarctic sites experience present-day surface pH and aragonite saturation outside the bounds of preindustrial variability throughout most, if not all, of the year. Coastal mooring sites experience more natural variability and thus, more overlap with preindustrial conditions, say the authors, though some species are identified as being more at risk than others.