Environment news
- Collapsing Greenland glacier could raise sea levels by half a metre, say scientists
- Paris climate deal must be legally binding, EU tells John Kerry
- EU watchdog opens door to new licence for controversial weedkiller
- UK becomes only G7 country to increase fossil fuel subsidies
- Britain ‘must abandon Churchillian rhetoric’ in face of rising seas
- Coal from Carmichael mine ‘will create more annual emissions than New York’
- Legal battles to protect the environment ‘easier to fight in China than the UK’
- Britain loses top energy rating after green policy U-turns
- Renewable energy made up half of world’s new power plants in 2014: IEA
- World’s climate about to enter ‘uncharted territory’ as it passes 1C of warming
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall rejects Morrisons’ ‘pathetic’ wonky veg trial
Features and comment
- Lizard traffickers exploit legal loopholes to trade at world’s biggest fair
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World’s largest ocean cleanup operation one step closer to launch
- Wind power is not driving the UK towards blackouts
- Coal ‘isn’t going anywhere’ despite renewables boom, says industry head
- Running for climate change: ‘I was very much on the edge physically and mentally’
- Will reintroduced lynx hunt Britain’s sheep?
On the blogs
- Tories push for climate change action abroad but back fossil fuels at home
- Toothless Environment Agency is allowing the living world to be wrecked with impunity
- By rejecting Keystone, President Obama cements his climate legacy
- Allowing scallop dredging in ‘strictly protected’ dolphin reserves is madness
- How are cyclists most likely to die?
Multimedia
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The week in wildlife – in pictures
- The truth behind coal companies’ terrible PR campaigns - video
- In too deep: Gideon Mendel’s photographs of global flooding – in pictures
And finally ...
Too slow to ripen or too squidgy and brown inside, avocados often end up getting chucked on to the UK’s food waste mountain. Now Tesco may have the answer to our avocado woes: frozen ones, de-stoned, peeled and ripe when they thaw out.
