Coral reefs, lead levels and US quits Paris accord – green news roundup

Paris city hall – one of many landmarks around the world that were lit up in green in response to Trump pulling the US out of the Paris climate deal. Photograph: Nadine Achoui-Lesage/AP

Trump pulls the US out of the Paris agreement

• Paris climate deal: world reacts as Trump pulls out of global accord – as it happened
• EU to bypass Trump administration after Paris climate agreement pullout
• Trump just cemented his legacy as America’s worst-ever president | Dana Nuccitelli
• World reacts to Trump’s decision – in pictures
• China sees an opportunity to lead as Trump withdraws. But will it?
• The Paris deal pullout is more damaging to the US than the climate
• President’s Paris climate speech annotated: Trump’s claims analysed

More environment news

• Nine tenths of England’s floodplains not fit for purpose, study finds
  
• ‘We have been poisoning ourselves’: has ice analysis revealed the truth about lead?
• UK government sued for third time over illegal air pollution from diesels
• Climate change could make cities 8C hotter – scientists
• Scientists warn US coral reefs are on course to disappear within decades
• UK lobbies Europe to dilute flagship energy efficiency law
• Shareholders force ExxonMobil to come clean on cost of climate change

In depth

• ‘Kill them, kill them, kill them’: the volunteer army plotting to wipe out Britain’s grey squirrels
• The world’s most toxic town: the terrible legacy of Zambia’s lead mines
• Air pollution doesn’t just harm humans – it is destroying nature too

And finally ...

• ‘Faceless’ fish missing for more than a century rediscovered by Australian scientists