Geoengineering, megafires and 'hothouse' Earth – green news roundup

Proposals to combat climate change by reflecting the sun’s rays back into space would cause widespread crop failure, research found. Photograph: ISS/NASA

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Environment news

• Reflecting sun’s rays would cause crops to fail, scientists warn
• Firefighters battle to contain historic California blaze as political tensions rise
• The era of megafires: the crisis facing California and what will happen next
• Lawyers say Gove proposals for Brexit environmental watchdog are useless
• Domino-effect of climate events could move Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state
• Race to contain destructive march of armyworm as pest spreads to India
• UK could run out of food a year from now with no-deal Brexit, NFU warns
• New green belt housing applications push total to a record 460,000
• Only a third of plastic food packaging can be recycled, councils say
• Trump administration lifts ban on pesticides linked to declining bee numbers

In depth

• Air pollution is a lethal blight that shames our politicians
  
• The oceans’ last chance: ‘It has taken years of negotiations to set this up’
  
• Welsh river study reveals ‘troubling’ decline of wildlife
  
• Chimp sanctuary created by World Bank threatened by World Bank-backed dam
  

Multimedia

• Mendocino Complex fire: aerial footage shows scale of California’s biggest ever blaze – video report
  
• The week in wildlife – in pictures
  
• Drought devastation seen from above – video
  

And finally ...

• First UK-grown chia seeds to go on sale this week
  
• Crunch time for Walkers over non-recyclable crisp packets