Plastic waste, bee-harming pesticides and tigers – green news roundup

A landmark study has shown that pesticides damage survival of bee colonies. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AP

Environment news

• Pesticides damage survival of bee colonies, landmark study shows
• Fine motorists idling outside schools to cut air pollution, say health watchdogs
• World has three years left to stop dangerous climate change, warn experts
• Mayors of 7,400 cities vow to meet Obama’s climate commitments
• EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans
• Vulnerable ‘chokepoints’ threaten global food supply, warns report
• UK on track to miss carbon emissions target due to stalled energy policy
• Quarter of England’s rivers at risk of running dry, finds WWF
• Red-faced encounter: rare new species of parrot discovered in Mexico

In depth

• Anti-poaching drive brings Siberia’s tigers back from brink
  
• The eco guide to performance wear
• The Guardian view on pricing the Great Barrier Reef: a dangerous absurdity

Multimedia

• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• Ocean plastic pollution in Scotland – in pictures

Bottling it – highlights from our plastic waste series

• A million bottles a minute: world’s plastic binge ‘as dangerous as climate change’
• We need to talk about plastic bottles - video
• Stop exporting plastic waste to China to boost recycling at home, say experts
• The house that Tateh built ... out of sand-filled plastic bottles
• How to live without plastic bottles ...

And finally ...

• Scientists have discovered that cockatoos impress mates with Phil Collins-style drum solos

Watch them in action in some of the first ever footage ...