Green news roundup: Guardian climate campaign, Arctic sea ice and ducks

Alan Rusbridger launches the Guardian’s climate change campaign, Keep it in the Ground. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

Keep it in the Ground – the Guardian’s climate campaign

• Guardian climate change campaign gathers 100,000 signatures
• Revealed: Gates Foundation’s $1.4bn in fossil fuel investments
• Wellcome Trust sold off £94m ExxonMobil oil investment
• Alan Rusbridger: The argument for divesting from fossil fuels is becoming overwhelming
• Ed Davey backs Guardian climate change campaign
• Everything you wanted to ask about the Guardian’s climate change campaign

We’re calling on the world’s two biggest charitable funds, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust, to shift their money out of fossil fuels. Please join us and sign the petition here.

Environment news

• Arctic sea ice extent hits record low for winter maximum
• Florida employee ‘punished for using phrase climate change’
• Rare continental butterfly survives UK winter for first time
• Nearly one in 10 of Europe’s wild bee species face extinction, says study
• Wet wipes found on British beaches up more than 50% in 2014
• Australia urged to shut coal-fired power plants
• Amazon’s trees removed nearly a third less carbon in last decade – study
• Pitcairn Islands to get world’s largest single marine reserve
• Students occupy Oxford university in fossil fuel divestment protest
  

On the blogs

• Who are really Australia’s top climate polluters?
• High-end Laos resort serves up illegal wildlife for Chinese tourists
• India falling behind in protection of snow leopards and their habitat
• Fossil fuels are way more expensive than you think
• The Arctic’s climate change is messing with our weather
  

Multimedia

• The biggest story in the world – climate podcast
• Why we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground - video
• Satellite Eye on Earth: February 2015 – in pictures
• Pangolins: the world’s most illegally traded mammal – in pictures
• The week in wildlife – in pictures
  

Features and comment

• Conservationist murders threaten Costa Rica’s eco-friendly reputation
• Bryony Worthington: The quiet revolution that’s changing the way we use energy
• Jeremy Leggett: Why I pledged to give my degree back if Oxford voted against fossil fuel divestment
• George Monbiot: Isis are not the only ones committing great acts of vandalism
  

And finally ...

• Don’t feed the ducks bread, say conservationists

We feed six million loaves of bread a year to ducks in England and Wales causing damage to birds’ health and polluting waterways. Oats, corn and peas are safer for the birds