Environment news
- Human impact has pushed Earth into the Anthropocene, scientists say
- London takes just one week to breach annual air pollution limits
- Keystone XL company takes legal action after Obama ‘overstepped authority’
- US government says widely used pesticide could harm honeybees
- EU scientists begin review of ban on pesticides linked to bee declines
- Environment Agency chief regrets delayed return from Barbados
- BA blames UK government for scrapping of £340m green fuels project
- A single gas well leak is California’s biggest contributor to climate change
- December 2015 was the wettest month ever recorded in UK
On the blogs
- Era of climate science denial is not over, study finds
- Why is the largest Earth science conference still sponsored by Exxon?
- What does the Paris agreement mean for the world’s other 8 million species?
- Let’s drink to being a champagne environmentalist
Features and comment
- George Monbiot: Liz Truss is choosing to protect farmers over flood victims
- Endangered: the police unit that protects wildlife from human cruelty
- Organic and small-scale: An alternative vision for the future of farming
- UK demand soars for electric and hybrid vehicles
- ‘Working with nature’ didn’t save Pickering from the floods – it just didn’t rain much
- Earth is ‘experiencing a global warming spurt’
- How the floods united the north of England – from chefs bearing curry to refugees with sandbags
Multimedia
- Primates in pictures: US photographer’s stunning portraits of endangered species
- Photo Ark: capturing endangered wildlife before it’s too late
- Satellite eye on Earth: December 2015 – in pictures
- Stunning starling murmuration in Israeli desert - in pictures
- Threatened bluefin tuna sells to sushi restaurant for $118,000 in Japan - video
- London zoo conducts its annual animal stocktake – in pictures
And finally ...
Wild weather brings the yellow-bellied sea snakes, which are normally entirely aquatic and highly venomous, on to New South Wales beaches
