Mandatory Credit: Photo by imageBROKER/REX/Shutterstock (3462545a) Remains of a young elephant which has fallen victim to poachers VARIOUS Photograph: imageBROKER/REX/Shutterstock
Environment news
- World’s largest marine park created in Ross Sea in Antarctica in landmark deal
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World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns
- Grouse shooting estates shored up by millions in subsidies
- Shipping industry agrees to cap sulphur emissions by 2020
- Whaling watchdog shrinks loophole allowing Japan’s ‘scientific’ hunts
- EU drops law to limit cancer-linked chemical in food after industry complaint
- UK water firms call for ‘do not flush’ labelling on wet wipes
- Hacked emails reveal plan to counter Rupert Murdoch’s climate denial
- Heathrow airport expansion gets government approval
- Renewables made up half of net electricity capacity added last year
- ‘New era of climate change reality’ as emissions hit symbolic threshold
Features and comment
- 10 years on from the Stern report: a low-carbon future is the ‘only one available’
- Oil drilling underway beneath Ecuador’s Yasuní national park
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Frog goes extinct, media yawns
- Heathrow approval puts business above political and environment issues
- ‘Beauty and horror’ in the industrially scarred landscapes of south Wales
Multimedia
- The week in wildlife – in pictures
- World’s wildlife being pushed to the edge by humans - in pictures
- Huge huntsman spider tries to eat a mouse – video
- Industrial scars: The environmental cost of consumption – in pictures
And finally...
The US government is funding the training of an elite team of rodents to detect illegal wildlife shipments at African ports
