Environment news
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Electric vehicles could go first at traffic lights under UK clean air zone plans
- Majority of potential UK fracking sites are rich in important wildlife
- London zoo denies gorilla escaped by smashing window
- Electric cars set to pass 2m landmark globally by end of 2016
- British public support for fracking sinks to lowest ever level
- UK must focus on carbon removal to meet Paris goals, climate advisers urge
- Moratorium on logging Tasmania’s old growth forests could be reversed
- Germany takes steps to roll back renewable energy revolution
- UK loses top 10 spot in global energy ranking for the first time
- An energy first as UK successfully transmits data via national electricity grid
- Hurricane Sandy-level flooding is rising so sharply that it could become normal
- Record low number of British butterflies a ‘shock and a mystery’
Features and comment
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Can an upcycling expert transform my junk?
- Clinton’s little-known crusade to save Africa’s elephants
- ‘Walking into the unknown’: rural England weighs up the reality of Brexit
- Science Museum condemned for oil company sponsorship
Multimedia
- The EU’s effect on Blackpool’s beaches – before and after pictures
- The week in wildlife – in pictures
- Xavi Bou’s photographs reveal flight paths of birds – in pictures
- A celebration of botanical art throughout history – in pictures