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• Wildlife conservation: Congress diary
  Environment correspondent Richard Black's diary of the IUCN World Conservation Congress, which is being held in Barcelona, Spain.
  
  
• Jobs under threat at Dyson plant
  There could be job cuts at Sir James Dyson's manufacturing plant in Malmesbury.
  
  
• Cement factory jobs under threat
  A cement plant looks towards job cuts after suffering from a 20% drop in demand.
  
  
• Talks planned on factory future
  The assembly government is to meet management of an electronic company threatening to close its Anglesey plant.
  
  
• Probe after fatal print accident
  Health and safety officers are investigating the death of a man at a printing plant in Cambridgeshire.
  
  
• 265 jobs threat at island factory
  An electronics firm plans to close its factory on Anglesey with the loss of 265 jobs.
  
  
• Reptiles benefit from drugs raid
  A Devon zoo and the Eden Project in Cornwall benefit from a big drugs bust in Plymouth.
  
  
• Is there an alien in your garden?
  Watch an expert describe the alien plants that might be in your garden from our clickable map.
  
  
• Pair 'plotted sentence cut deal'
  Two Merseyside drug-smugglers provided false information about guns to win a reduction in their sentences, a court hears.
  
  
• IAEA 'barred from Yongbyon plant'
  The UN's nuclear watchdog says its inspectors no longer have any access to North Korea's main nuclear complex at Yongbyon.
  
  
• Seeking Africa's green revolution
  Is Africa's green revolution all that has been promised?
  
  
• Falling sales halt car production
  The Vauxhall car plant in Cheshire is to stop production for 14 days this month due to falling sales in Europe.
  
  
• Compost betrayed drugs operation
  Men caught with cannabis plants worth almost £225,000 were betrayed by getting a huge consignment of compost, a court hears.
  
  
• Q&A: EU green energy
  A guide to the EU's green energy targets, which are set to get tougher despite anxiety about the economic downturn.
  
  
• Wait for decision over soil plant
  There is to be a further wait before a decision is made over plans for a soil recycling plant.
  
  
• Tata announces new plant for Nano
  India's Tata Motors is to build the world's cheapest car, the Nano, in Gujarat state following a row over land for its original site.
  
  
• Climate focus 'good news for species'
  Climate change could help ensure the long-term survival of some of the world's most endangered species.
  
  
• Euro MPs stick to climate targets
  Euro MPs refuse to dilute emissions targets, despite pressure to protect industry in the economic downturn.
  
  
• Personal data found in recycling
  The names and addresses of 60 people who took part in market research in Worcestershire turn up at a recycling plant.
  
  
• Success for plants' pest control
  Researchers develop a potential new method of making plants significantly more resistant to pests.