Tigers extinct in Cambodia, Hinkley Point C and plastic bag charges — green news rounup

A Sumatran rhino, above, on the Indonesian part of Borneo island sighted for the first time in over 40 years in the wild in March, has died. Photograph: Ari Wibowo/AFP/Getty Images

Environment news

• Climate change will wipe $2.5tn off global financial assets: study
  
• World Bank to spend 28% of investments on climate change projects
  
• European diplomats criticise UN plan to curb airline emissions
  
• First Sumatran rhino found in Borneo in 40 years has died
  
• Sahara dust only ‘partly responsible’ for UK’s worst pollution event in 10 years
  
• Climate change threat to public health worse than polio, White House warns
  
• Drought-stricken California looks to Australia for tips on recycling water
  
• Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia
  
• Scrapping Hinkley for renewable alternatives would save ‘tens of billions’

Features and comment

• Edward Thomas’s In Pursuit of Spring
  
• We’re out of time on climate change. And Hillary Clinton helped get us here
  
• Why is Honduras the world’s deadliest country for environmentalists?
  
• Green policies are not responsible for the Tata steel crisis
  
• How I deal with the unbearable hypocrisy of being an environmentalist
  
• Great Barrier Reef could be David Attenborough’s last ‘proper’ documentary

Multimedia

• Mammal Society photographer of the year 2016 - winners in pictures
  
• The world’s most stunning environment photos
  
• Cumbria rebuilds after the flooding – a photo essay

On the blogs

• Six things we know about the plastic bag charge in England
  
• We are making the wrong energy choices for future generations
  
• Why so few British bike-frame builders are women?

... and finally

• The eco guide to guitars
  

Musicians’ love affair with tonewoods such as mahogany and and ebony plays mayhem with sustainability – and synthetic materials sound just as good