Environment news
- Environment minister accused of conflict of interest over farm subsidies
- Bovine TB not passed on through direct contact with badgers, research shows
- National Trust calls for complete reform of British farm subsidies
- Major Amazon dam opposed by tribes fails to get environmental license
- Electric vehicle charge points to outnumber petrol stations by 2020, say Nissan
- Brexit could herald end to British fruit and veg sales, producers warn
- Yorkshire Dales expand into Lancashire in national parks land grab
- England’s plastic bag usage drops 85% since 5p charge introduced
- Scientists fight crab for mysterious purple orb discovered in California deep
- UK’s carbon footprint rises 3%
On the blogs
- ‘Ayahuasca is changing global environmental consciousness’
- Britain shouts about immigration but is silent on one of the root causes: climate change
- New research shows penguins will suffer in a warming world
- Are local efforts to save coral reefs bound to fail?
Features and comment
- The town that reveals how Russia spills two Deepwater Horizons of oil each year
- Environmental records shattered as climate change ‘plays out before us’
- UN tries to hide involvement in deleting Australia from its climate report
- Granting this licence to shoot buzzards will unleash a killing spree
Multimedia
- The week in wildlife – in pictures
- Foul-smelling corpse flower finally blooms in New York – video
- Your pictures of the newly enlarged Yorkshire Dales and Lake District
And finally...
Nature put on a happy face when Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s biggest island appeared to form a smiley face as it erupted
