Environment news
• Rate of environmental degradation puts life on Earth at risk, say scientists
• Axa warns that companies linked to fossil fuels risk their reputations
• Pope Francis says climate change is mostly man's fault
• Harvard defies divestment campaigners and invests tens of millions of dollars in fossil fuels
• Companies will be legally required to reveal chemicals used for fracking
• High gold prices causing increased deforestation in South America, study finds
• 'Green' biomass boilers may waste billions in public money
• Ten Democratic senators vote with Republicans for Keystone XL pipeline
• Barack Obama moves to cut US methane emissions by almost half
• GM crops to be fast-tracked in UK following EU vote
On the blogs
• Bike blog: Is it OK to get off your bike and walk up a hill?
• Indonesia's new marine laws threaten sustainable fisheries
• 'If First Milk goes, that will finish my business overnight'
• The Antarctic ice sheet is a sleeping giant, beginning to stir
• Climate denier Ted Cruz will oversee Nasa – what could possibly go wrong?
• Does Europe's coke habit mean massacring 'uncontacted' indigenous people?
Multimedia
• 15 of the hottest spots around the world in 2014 - interactive
• Hebei's steel cities and China's pollution crisis – in pictures
• Blind orangutan released into the wild in Indonesia after sight restored – video
• The week in wildlife – in pictures
Features and comment
• Jonathon Porritt: It is 'impossible' for today's big oil companies to adapt to climate change
• Will Gadd: 'We were climbing ice that isn't going to be there next week'
• The mystery of the missing hen harriers
• Poland's shale gas revolution evaporates in face of environmental protests
• Pollutionwatch: Please don't keep the home fires burning
...And finally
• Iceland brewery makes beer using smoked whale testicles
Conservationists hit out at the whaling industry's attempt to create a market for its products and criticised the use of an endangered creature's intimate body parts as a marketing tool.
