Heatwave, GM and Earth overshoot – green news roundup

Canary Wharf seen from the dried-out grass of Greenwich Park. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images

Environment news

• UK ‘woefully unprepared’ for deadly heatwaves, warn MPs
• British farmers fear fire as heatwave creates ‘tinderbox’
• Gene-edited plants and animals are GM foods, EU court rules
• Mary Robinson launches new feminist fight against climate change
• Earth’s resources consumed in ever greater destructive volumes
• Ibis that was extinct in wild taught to migrate by following aircraft
• Sir David Attenborough urges British public to join butterfly count
• UK’s plastic waste may be dumped overseas instead of recycled
• UK electric car drivers face paying more to charge at peak times
• Rising temperatures linked to increased suicide rates

In depth

• Nine activists defending the Earth from violent assault
  
• ‘We’ve suffered enough’: Durham locals fight new open-cast coal mine
• These six species are about to be sacrificed for the US oil and gas industry

Multimedia

• Garden photographer of the year: macro winners – in pictures
• The week in wildlife – in pictures

And finally ...

• UK theme parks to offer half-price entry in exchange for used plastic bottles
• Beavers released in Forest of Dean as solution to flooding