Environment news
- Fracking set to be banned from 40% of England’s shale areas
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Paris climate summit: missing global warming target ‘would not be failure’
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Richard Branson leads call to free global economy from carbon emissions
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Landlords to be banned from letting draughtiest home
- Ministers were warned of badger cull risks, documents show
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Keystone pipeline: Obama given boost from EPA report revising climate impact
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Barrier Reef coral genetically altered in hope of surviving climate change
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Car makers face ‘real world’ emissions tests in EU pollution clampdown
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Greenland’s hidden meltwater lakes store up trouble
On the blogs
- George Monbiot: How to eradicate grey squirrels without firing a shot
- Fossil fuel companies are the greatest threat to life’s party – not greens
- India: Former minister delayed projects at party’s behest
Multimedia
- Wildlife under threat from Asia’s poaching crisis – in pictures
- European Tree of the Year competition – in pictures
- The week in wildlife – in pictures
- Starlings form shapely sight in Israeli sky - video
Features and comment
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Conservationists v chainsaws: the RSPB’s battle to save an Indonesian rainforest
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How winter is losing its cool in US cities
- Biofuels are not a green alternative to fossil fuels
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Even cockroaches have different personalities, scientists find
Observer Ethical Awards
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...And finally
• Plant genus named after Sir David Attenborough
Grasshoppers, shrimps, spiders and other creatures have all been named after Sir David Attenborough, but now a whole genus of endangered plants will bear the naturalist’s name.
