Green news roundup: green policies under the Tory axe and 'killer' seagulls

Seagulls have attacked pensioners, children, dogs, even a tortoise - and the British media is up in arms. Photograph: Mark Evans / Alamy/Alamy

Environment news

• The 9 green policies killed off by the Tory government
• Obama administration allows Shell’s Arctic oil wells but drilling still restricted
• Arnold Schwarzenegger: climate change is not science fiction
  
• Arctic sea ice volume showed strong recovery in 2013
  
• UK government kills off flagship green deal for home insulation
  
• Climate action isn’t preserve of the leftwing, says energy minister
  
• UK plastic bag use up for fifth year
  
• Protesters film slaughter of hundreds of whales in the Faroe Islands
  
• UK suspends ban on pesticides linked to serious harm in bees
  
• Act on climate change now, top British institutions tell governments

On the blogs

• The oceans are warming faster than climate models predicted
  
• Global warming deniers are an endangered species
  
• Long way to go to conserve India’s wild water buffaloes
  
• Scientists: we are ‘condemning’ forest elephants by ignoring evidence
  

Multimedia

• Satellite Eye on Earth: June 2015 – in pictures
  
• Cows speak up on climate and come clean about their own emissions - video
  
• Whales slaughtered in Faroe Islands – video
  
• Can the sun cool down the Earth? – video
  
• The week in wildlife – in pictures
  
• 10 Australian species at extreme risk of extinction: can they be saved?

Features and comment

• Tory attacks on green policies signal dark times ahead for the environment
  
• Swamp power: how the world’s wetlands can help stop climate change
  
• Can UK’s solar industry survive without subsidies?

And finally ...

• ‘Killer’ seagulls top the pecking order for a media frenzy

Cornwall’s antisocial birds have turned 2015 into the summer of the gull, with even the prime minister joining the debate over what has to be done.