Killer whales, fracking and climate migration – green news roundup

A major new study reveals that half of killer whales are doomed to die from ocean pollution Photograph: Audun Rikardsen/PA

Environment news

• Orca ‘apocalypse’: half of killer whales doomed to die from pollution

• Jailed anti-fracking activists release defiant video message

• World ‘nowhere near on track’ to avoid warming beyond 1.5C target

• UK government urged not to bury nuclear waste under national parks

• Monsanto’s global weedkiller harms honeybees, research finds

• Under-fire UN environment chief forced back to HQ

• Seattle sea cucumber poachers reeled in $1.5m

• Corbyn vows to end ‘greed-is-good’ capitalism in UK

• Great Barrier Reef scientists told to focus on projects to make government look good

• Fears grow for small tortoiseshell butterfly as decline continues

In depth

• ‘We’re moving to higher ground’: America’s era of climate mass migration is here

• While economic growth continues we’ll never kick our fossil fuels habit | George Monbiot

• The man who beat Monsanto: ‘They have to pay for not being honest’

• Back from the brink: the global effort to save coral from climate change

• The lonely Thames beluga whale is an anomaly – and an omen

Multimedia

A young male tiger rests in the roots of a banyan tree, in Ranthambhore national park, India. Photograph: Chris Brunskill/Save Wild Tigers/Eye On Tiger

• Eye on the Tiger: the world’s largest ever exhibition of tiger photography – in pictures

• The week in wildlife – in pictures

And finally …

Experience the transformative effect of the incoming tide on Britain’s beaches and estuaries in these beautiful before and after images.

• Ebb and flow: Britain’s tidal coastline – in pictures