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Environment news
- Solar power sets new British record by beating coal for a day
- World’s biggest wealth fund excludes 52 coal-related groups
- England’s last golden eagle feared dead
- Climate change site reveals which homes will be swamped by rising sea levels
- UK government’s fracking definition ‘could allow drilling without safeguards’
- Two-thirds of British public back microbead ban
- World’s largest coal producer files for bankruptcy protection
- Oil industry knew of ‘serious’ climate concerns more than 45 years ago
- Greenland sees record-smashing early ice sheet melt
- Two-thirds of Europeans support ban on glyphosate, says Yougov poll
- Number of tigers in the wild rises for first time in more than 100 years
Features and comment
- Is it possible to reduce CO2 emissions and grow the global economy?
- Is it safe to dump Fukushima waste into the sea?
- Conservationists divided over royal visit to controversial Indian wildlife reserve
- £500,000 tree-planting project helped Yorkshire town miss winter floods
- Climate scientist James Hansen: ‘I don’t think I’m an alarmist’
- Islands of Gauguin and Robinson Crusoe ‘could become parched paradise’
- Bill McKibben: BP is playing fast and loose with our future
Multimedia
- The week in wildlife – in pictures
- Inky the octopus and other great escapes – video
- Bad Earth: the human cost of pollution in China – in pictures
- Footage of orphaned koala that loves to cuddle goes viral – video
- The human face of fracking in North Dakota – in pictures
On the blogs
- Why even climate science denialist Marc Morano knows not to bet against global warming data
- It’s settled: 90–100% of climate experts agree on human-caused global warming
- El Niño is Earth’s rechargeable heat battery
- I’m deaf but it doesn’t stop me cycling
And finally ...
Researchers ‘have no idea’ why red crabs off Panama might be behaving in such a way, says a biologist: ‘Nothing like this has ever been seen’.
