Environment news
• US and China strike deal on carbon cuts
• G20: Obama to pledge $2.5bn to help poor countries on climate change
• UK opposition could doom EU efforts to curb plastic bag use
• More than a third of natural world heritage sites face 'significant threats'
• Peru's forests store more CO2 than US emits in a year, research shows
• Major oak in Sherwood Forest voted England's tree of the year
• Shale gas unlikely to make the UK energy self-sufficient, says report
• Rich countries subsidising oil, gas and coal companies by $88bn a year
On the blogs
• Fact check: China pledged bigger climate action than the US
• US-china carbon deal: A historic milestone in the global fight against climate change
• New study shows warm waters are melting Antarctica from below
• Chinese media welcomes climate deal with US
Multimedia
• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• Owlets of Essex airfield – in pictures
• How the G20 subsidises exploration for fossil fuel – interactive
• How the world uses coal – interactive
Features
• The real story of US coal: inside the world's biggest coalmine
• Secret talks and a personal letter: how the US-China climate deal was done
• Can Zambia save its environment with marijuana?
• Government softens stance on Devon's wild beavers
...And finally
• Lightning strikes will increase due to climate change
For every 1C of global warming lightning strikes will increase by about 12%, new research shows, but scientists don't yet know where increases will occur
