Environment news
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Wellcome Trust urged to divest by 1,000 health professionals
- Food production shocks ‘will happen more often because of extreme weather’
- Costa’s last stand: climate change could see tourists swap the Med for the Baltics
- Government will step in if councils don’t fast-track fracking applications
- Humans have already used up 2015’s supply of Earth’s resources – analysis
- UK lobbying for even weaker EU air pollution laws, leaked papers show
- Scotland to issue formal ban on genetically modified crops
- US Catholic fossil fuel investments at odds with pope’s climate push
- Shell ready to begin drilling for oil in the Arctic
- Animal faeces or carcass likely cause of water contamination scare
On the blogs
- How to overtake cyclists – the video all drivers should watch
- 2015 global temperatures are right in line with climate model predictions
- Revealed: Canadian government spent millions on secret tar sands advocacy
- Linking two rivers threatens to displace tigers
Multimedia
- Satellite Eye on Earth: July 2015 – in pictures
- Diary of an urban peregrine falcon nest in Chicago – in pictures
- The week in wildlife – in pictures
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‘Do no harm’: Medical professionals urge Wellcome Trust to end fossil fuel investments
Features and comment
- Life around New Mexico’s gas wells: how fracking is turning the air foul
- Eco audit: Can Shell afford Arctic oil?
- Ann Pickard: the little-known executive leading Shell’s gamble on Arctic oil
- India’s war on Greenpeace
And finally ...
If you wanted to tell a singing robin from a trilling wren, you once needed a lifetime’s ornithological knowledge. Not now, thanks to two new birdsong identifying apps. Warblr and Chirpomatic promise to name the trilling bird with a point and click of your phone. But could they tell a chaffinch from a wood pigeon when put to test in the wild English countryside?
