Environment news
- UK hits clean energy milestone: 50% of electricity from low carbon sources
- A 10 from Len: Strictly special to drive biggest TV power spike this Christmas
- World’s first solar panel road opens in Normandy village
- Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions are rising and forecast to miss 2030 target
- Ministers explore applying microbead ban to household products
- Norway reprieves 32 of 47 wolves earmarked for cull
- Petition calls for Barack Obama to fulfil Green Climate Fund pledge
- Fracking to go ahead in North Yorkshire after high court ruling
- Great white shark feast caught on film points to population rebound in US
- European commission guilty of ‘negligence’ over diesel defeat devices, says draft report
Arctic special
- Arctic ice melt ‘already affecting weather patterns where you live right now’
- The country set to cash in on climate change
- Arctic oil rush: Nenets’ livelihood and habitat at risk from oil spills
- Murmansk’s silver lining: Arctic city expects renaissance with ice melt
- Ice-melting temperatures forecast for Arctic midwinter
- Why cutting soot emissions is ‘fastest solution’ to slowing Arctic ice melt
- This is the polar bear capital of the world, but the snow has gone
Multimedia
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Arctic 360: take a tour without doing damage
- Guardian editors discuss the future of global climate change policy – Project podcast
- Wildlife Conservation Society’s favourite pictures of 2016
- Ziggy Stardust snake and Klingon newt among 163 new species discovered in the Mekong – in pictures
- Mysterious ghost shark caught on film for the first time
And finally...
A third of Brits throw away Christmas turkey and sprouts - before it even reaches the table