Air pollution, owl cafes and 25 years of UK wind power – green news roundup

Traffic in Putney High Street Street London, one of the capital’s worst pollution hotspots. Photograph: Elizabeth Dalziel/Greenpeace

Environment news

• London breaches annual air pollution limit for 2017 in just five days
  
• Diesel cars are 10 times more toxic than trucks and buses, data shows
• Giant iceberg poised to break off from Antarctic shelf
• China cementing global dominance of renewable energy and technology
• Renewables investment in UK will fall 95% over next three years – study
• James Delingpole article calling ocean acidification ‘alarmism’ cleared by press watchdog
• Human rights abuses complaint against WWF to be examined by OECD
• World’s oldest known orca presumed dead in blow to endangered whales
• Indian firm makes carbon capture breakthrough
• Cuadrilla starts work on Lancashire fracking site
• Brexit ‘zombie legislation’ could damage wildlife and farming, MPs warn

Features and comment

• Inside Glanrhyd, the first solar ‘eco hamlet’ in Wales
• The biggest environmental battles facing the Trump administration
• Serene cycling, more variety and new lanes: my Bike Blog hopes for 2017
• New study confirms NOAA finding of faster global warming | John Abraham
• Cornish village marks 25 years of UK wind power
• Conservationists get their talons out for Japan’s owl cafes

Multimedia

• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• Satellite Eye on Earth: December 2016 – in pictures
  
• The best of the wildlife photography awards 2016 – in pictures

And finally...

• Huge crocodile trapped by wheelie bin barricade after appearing in Queensland backyard

One Queensland community received a very unwelcome New Year’s Eve guest