Green news roundup: salamanders, Heathrow 13 and tidal power setbacks

A skin-eating fungus could eradicate salamanders from large tracts of Europe by 2020 unless a ban on live imports of Asian species is urgently introduced. Photograph: Alamy

Environment news

• US clean power plan setback ‘will not affect Paris climate change deal’
• Two-thirds of US students are taught climate change badly, study finds
  
• California gas leak finally fixed
• Jailing Heathrow 13 poses ‘massive threat’ to peaceful protest rights
• Swansea tidal energy scheme faces ‘disastrous setback’
  
• Scientists call for import ban to save Europe’s salamanders from fungus
  
• Air pollution raises risk of death ‘for decades after exposure’
  
• Winds of climate change will make transatlantic flights longer, study shows
• Sea-level rise ‘could last twice as long as human history’

Features and comment

• The truth about London’s air pollution
• RSPB plans ‘bat-friendly’ wind turbines at Bedfordshire HQ
• Checking Ted Cruz’s climate science denial howlers
• Black market continues to taint Europe’s eel fishery

Multimedia

• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• Namibia’s wildlife caught by camera trap - in pictures
• Home of UK ‘patron saint of conservation’ opening to public
  
• Satellite Eye on Earth
  
• Mark Ruffalo to David Cameron: fracking an ‘enormous mistake’ – video
  

And finally ...

• Hundreds of manatees congregate in Florida refuge to escape chilly seas

A popular Florida wildlife refuge has been closed to swimmers, thanks to an influx of hundreds of manatees.