Environment news
- Welsh home installs UK’s first Tesla Powerwall storage battery
- Morocco to switch on first phase of world’s largest solar plant
- Major UK coal power plant closure ‘will not lead to blackouts’
- US electricity industry’s use of coal fell to historic low in 2015 as plants closed
- World’s largest offshore windfarm to be built off Yorkshire coast
- Ships’ noise is serious problem for killer whales and dolphins, report finds
- German scientists to conduct nuclear fusion experiment
- Scientists warn of last chance to rid Madagascar of invasive toxic toad
- Japanese firm to open world’s first robot-run farm
- Lions rediscovered in Ethiopian national park
On the blogs
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Measuring ocean heating is key to tracking global warming
- Finally, Kenyans can watch their own country’s wildlife on TV
- Indonesia and US join forces to police the seas
- Why my cycling clothing company uses models without helmets
Features and comment
- The truth about London’s air pollution
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Let’s make this a real ‘leap’ year, and go fossil fuel-free | Naomi Klein
- From liquid air to supercapacitors, energy storage is finally poised for a breakthrough
- Without a solution to the poaching crisis, the death of conservationists will continue | Ben Fogle
Multimedia
- The week in wildlife – in pictures
- Video shows only known wild jaguar in US at home in Arizona mountains
- Costa Rica’s best and brightest hummingbirds – in pictures
- Tasmania bushfires leave world heritage area devastated – in pictures
- New England: one of the Earth’s greatest spectacles - in pictures
And finally ...
A Sydney woman’s video on Facebook of a huge spider crawling through her packaged greens was viewed over 3m times. The supermarket said it was “very concerned ...”
