Environment news
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Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts
- Australian oil well leaked into ocean for months – but spill kept secret
- Sea level rise will double coastal flood risk worldwide
- New types of coffee, parsnips and roses among 1,700 plants discovered last year
- Mersey feat: world’s biggest wind turbines go online near Liverpool
- Air pollution kills more people in the UK than in Sweden, US and Mexico
- Less than 1% of surplus food from farms and manufacturers used to feed hungry
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‘Narco-deforestation’: cocaine trade destroying swaths of Central America
- Chinese appetite for totoaba fish bladder kills off rare porpoise
- 38,000 people a year die early because of diesel emissions testing failures
- Top UK fund manager divests from fossil fuels
In depth
- Trump is deleting climate change, one site at a time
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Toxic timebomb: why we must fight back against the world’s plague of plastic | Jennifer Lavers and Alexander Bond
- It’s bananas to chuck out perfectly good fruit
Multimedia
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The week in wildlife – in pictures
- 10 years of Ciwem Environmental Photographer of the Year – in pictures
- Whitley Awards for nature conservation 2017 winners – in pictures