Environment news
- Dirty kitchen roll among things Britons wrongly think they can recycle
- WHO launches health review after microplastics found in 90% of bottled water
- New oil threat looms over England’s national park land, campaigners warn
- UK car industry must pay up for toxic air ‘catastrophe’, super-inquiry finds
- World’s great forests could lose half of all wildlife as planet warms – report
- Extreme winter weather becoming more common as Arctic warms, study finds
- Microplastic pollution in oceans is far worse than feared, say scientists
- UK farmers to be given first ever targets on soil health
- Garden bird feeders help spread disease among wild birds
In depth
- Fishing for krill is an eco-disaster: we must protect the Antarctic
- It’s 50 years since climate change was first seen. Now time is running out
- The quest for bike-friendly children’s books in a world where cars rule
- Burning coal may have caused Earth’s worst mass extinction | Dana Nuccitelli
- Saving the albatross: ‘The war is against plastic and they are casualties on the frontline’
Multimedia
to protect the endangered yellow-eyed penguin. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian
- Earth is my witness: the photography of Art Wolfe – in pictures
- Fukushima 360: walk through a ghost town in the nuclear disaster zone – video
- Saving the yellow-eyed penguin – a photo essay
And finally ...
Mysteries of the deep: for the first time ever scientists have attached a camera to a minke whale in Antarctica. This is what they saw
