Environment news
- Green Brexit is impossible to guarantee, say Tory MEPs
- India’s farmed chickens dosed with world’s strongest antibiotics, study finds
- Former national monuments shrunk by Trump to be opened for mining claims
- Stripes of wildflowers across farm fields could cut pesticide spraying
- Miners receive twice as much in tax credits as Australia spends on environment
- Hong Kong votes to ban domestic ivory sales
- Polar bears could become extinct faster than was feared, study says
- UK given days to show it will comply with EU air quality laws
- Chile creates five national parks over 10m acres in historic act of conservation
In depth
- Exclusive: Almost four environmental defenders a week killed in 2017
- ‘Silver bullet’ to suck CO2 from air and halt climate change ruled out
- Who’s driving the future of conservation? Ordinary people
- The long read: In pursuit of the tortoise smugglers
- We can battle climate change without Washington DC. Here’s how
Multimedia
- The week in wildlife – in pictures
- Brazil’s Pantanal - the world’s biggest wetland: in pictures
- London air pollution live data – track the breaches of legal limits in 2018
- Can Sri Lanka’s elephants and humans learn to live together? – in pictures
Guardian Australia: Support our wide brown land
Australia’s fragile environment is under threat. The Guardian aims to raise $150,000 to support ‘Our wide brown land’, a series focusing on the less-scrutinised threats to Australia’s natural places. Your support will help fund the Guardian’s in depth coverage of critical issues like species loss and microplastic pollution. Help us to move these issues up the public agenda and challenge governments to do more.
Read more on the series here.
And finally ...
The tragic tale of Nigel the lonely gannet, who died as he lived, surrounded by concrete birds
Nigel “was observed carefully constructing a nest for his chosen mate, grooming her chilly, concrete feathers, and chatting to her - one-sided - year after year after year.”
