Environment news
- Exclusive: US official appeared to delay protections for endangered species at behest of oil group
- UK drives into e-vehicle fast lane with 11% sales rise
- Americans waste 150,000 tons of food each day – equal to a pound per person
- New guidance to help consumers make better meat choices
- Last caribou in lower 48 US states all but extinct: ‘The herd is functionally lost’
- Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles
- More than 95% of world’s population breathe dangerous air, major study finds
- UK to review climate target raising hopes of a zero emissions pledge
- Murdered land activist adds to rising death toll in Brazil’s Amazon
- Poland violated EU laws by logging in Białowieża forest, court rules
In depth
- Gove’s cotton bud ban is feeble. This is how we can wipe out plastic
- Top scientist leaves Iran after crackdown on environmentalists
- I kept all my plastic for a year – the 4,490 items forced me to rethink
- The ingenious cyclewear Victorian women invented to navigate social mores
- The courts are deciding who’s to blame for climate change | Dana Nuccitelli
Multimedia
- The week in wildlife – in pictures
- Great Barrier Reef: 30% of coral died in catastrophic 2016 heatwave – video
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The plastic tsunami: pollution across Australia’s coastlines – in pictures
And finally ...
London ‘pollution pods’ let you sample the smog in Beijing and Delhi
Londoners are invited to taste the air of some of the world’s most polluted cities – including their own – but they can also find out what it’s like to breathe clean air for a change.
