Environment news
- Copenhagen set to divest from fossil fuels
- Mild winter means lower numbers for annual garden bird count, RSPB warns
- UK government not spending enough on flood defences, poll finds
- UK families blow twice as much money on food waste as they think, research shows
- Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching: too soon for optimism, says academic
- Japan begins work on ‘world’s largest’ floating solar farm
- UN urges business leaders to double investment in green energy by 2020
- Brexit would damage UK environment, say experts
- Solar panel costs predicted to fall 10% a year
- Doomsday Clock stuck near midnight due to climate change and nuclear war
- Record hot years near impossible without manmade climate change – study
- Plastic now pollutes every corner of Earth
On the blogs
- Hitler Rojas - the Peruvian farmer killed for opposing a mega-dam?
- Record hot 2015 gave us a glimpse at the future of global warming
- Testing Jeremy Corbyn’s dream bike: the £475 Raleigh Criterium
- ‘If the world ends in 2100, we’re probably OK’
Features and comment
- UAE banks on ‘rainmakers’ to secure future water supply
- World heritage forests burn as global tragedy unfolds in Tasmania
- Why are some British newspapers still denying climate change?
Multimedia
- The week in wildlife – in pictures
- Octopuses’ colourful and violent relationships revealed in underwater footage – video
- Three dead whales wash up on Skegness beach – video
- Dining with giraffes at Kenyan manor hotel - in pictures
And finally ...
This weekend is the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch, when people all over Britain will take part in the world’s largest garden wildlife survey. Do you know your chaffinch from your greenfinch?
