Insectageddon, fatal pollution and 2017 Wildlife Photographer winners – green news roundup

Flying insects caught in a malaise trap, used by entomologists to collect samples. Photograph: Courtesy of entomologisher Verein Krefeld

Environment news

• Warning of ‘ecological Armageddon’ after dramatic plunge in insect numbers
• ‘The threats continue’: murder of retired couple chills fellow activists in Turkey
• Global pollution kills 9m a year and threatens ‘survival of human societies’
• Regreening the planet could cut as much carbon as halting oil use – report
• Government set to face fresh legal challenge over air pollution crisis
• UK withdrawal bill ‘rips the heart out of environmental law’, say campaigners
• British birds evolve bigger beaks to use garden feeders
• Replenish the swamp: 7,500 trafficked Turkish frogs returned to wild

Opinion

• Insectageddon: farming is more catastrophic than climate breakdown

Multimedia

• Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017 – the winners
• Tell your pollution story – in pictures
• Your best pictures of insects around the world
• Photographers against wildlife crime – in pictures
• California wildfires: moment family’s dog is found alive in ruins of home – video
• The week in wildlife – in pictures

And finally ...

‘This scene is not some corner of rural England, but a former no-go area in the Lee valley, between downtown Walthamstow and gritty Tottenham’: Walthamstow Wetlands

• Wild in Walthamstow: Europe’s biggest urban wetlands open

Few locals know about Walthamstow Wetlands in north London. But now they, and nature lovers everywhere, can enjoy this amazing bird reserve for free