Microbeads, Great Barrier Reef and CO2 turned to stone – green news roundup

Spice gull: A seabird turned orange after it fell into a vat of curry. Photograph: Vale Wildlife Hospital/PA

Environment news

• CO2 turned into stone in Iceland in climate change breakthrough
• Alaska on track for hottest year since records began
• Brexit would increase UK’s air pollution crisis, say experts
• Paris floods made almost twice as likely by climate change, say scientists
• UK solar eclipses coal power over month for first time
• MPs attack loopholes in cosmetic industry’s microbead phase out
• Arctic sea ice fell to record low for May
• Arctic tern makes longest ever migration – equal to flying twice around the planet
• Recall of Monsanto’s Roundup likely as EU refuses limited use of glyphosate
• ‘A tipping point’: record number of Americans see global warming as threat
• EU dilutes proposal to halve air pollution deaths after UK lobbying

Features and comment

• How the Great Barrier Reef got polluted – from farms and fossil fuels to filthy propaganda | Graham Readfearn
  
• Tiger temple scandal exposes the shadowy billion-dollar Asian trade
• Don’t get riled by the AA advising cyclists – save your anger for the Highway Code

Multimedia

• The Great Barrier Reef: a catastrophe laid bare – special report
• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• Satellite eye on Earth: May 2016 – in pictures
  
• Rescued whale sharks released back into the ocean – in pictures

And finally...

• Spice gull: seabird turns orange after falling into vat of curry

The thing that shocked his rescuers the most was the smell. “He smelled amazing, he really smelled good.”