Climate change masterplan, plastics and penguin troubles – green news roundup

Offshore wind was one of the winners in the UK government’s clean growth strategy. Photograph: William Edwards/AFP/Getty Images

Environment news

• Penguin disaster as just two chicks survive from colony of 40,000
• Supermarkets must stop using plastic packaging, says former Asda boss
• Fossil fuels win billions in public money after Paris climate deal, angry campaigners claim
• Draughty homes targeted in UK climate change masterplan
• Ben & Jerry’s to launch glyphosate-free ice-cream after tests find traces of weedkiller
• Ineos discloses document used to gain injunction on fracking protests
• Sadiq Khan must do more to tackle London’s air pollution, say health experts
• Scientists hope damage to Larsen C ice shelf will reveal ecosystems
• Mega-battery plant to come online in Sheffield
• ‘The war on coal is over’: EPA boss to roll back Obama’s clean power rules

In depth

• 2017 on course to be deadliest on record for land defenders
• UK climate change masterplan – the grownups have finally won
• ‘Boar War’: the Forest of Dean pixies fighting against the cull of wild pigs
  
• Woman, 79, supplying tea to anti-fracking protesters forcibly removed by police
• Fatal extraction: how demand for hippos’ teeth is threatening them with extinction

Multimedia

• Mine to maker: the journey of the world’s first Fairtrade African gold – in pictures
  
• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• ‘Simply stunning’: your favourite cycle rides around the world

And finally ...

• See the Australian desert fill with colour as 10,000 budgies provide a dazzling display

Australian outback reaches peak budgie as thousands swoop to drink at a waterhole