Climate marches, hedgehogs and the challenge of one-planet living – green news roundup

Most the countryside in England and Wales is now devoid of hedgehogs, study finds. Photograph: Jrleyland/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Environment news

• BBC admits ‘we get climate change coverage wrong too often’

• Hundreds of thousands expected to join global climate marches this weekend

• Most of countryside now devoid of hedgehogs, study finds

• Global soft drink firms back plan to eliminate packaging waste

• World’s largest offshore windfarm opens off Cumbrian coast

• Eight bird species are first confirmed avian extinctions this decade

• London fashion week vows to be fur-free

• Groundbreaking 'spinning' wind turbine wins UK Dyson award

• Japan killed 50 whales in Antarctic protected area, data shows

• Botswana poaching spree sees 90 elephants killed in two months

In depth

• Profits v planet: can big business and the environment get along? | Yossi Sheffi

• We won’t save the Earth with a better kind of disposable coffee cup

• ‘It’s not if, it’s when': the deadly pig disease spreading around the world

• Peruvian villagers face murder and intimidation from land traffickers

• Australia’s authority in Pacific ‘being eroded by refusal to address climate change’

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Climate activists protest at the UN climate change meeting in Bangkok on 4 September. Photograph: Narong Sangnak/EPA

Multimedia

• The week in wildlife - in pictures

• Earth Photo 2018 shortlist – in pictures

• 2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year highly commended - in pictures

And finally …

Meet the shark that eats veggies (and a fair helping of meat too).