UK fracking, record temperatures and fishy accents – green news roundup

Romania’s brown bears have been spared the bullet as the country bans trophy hunting. Photograph: Radu Sigheti/Reuters

Environment news

• Fracking given UK go-ahead as Lancashire council rejection overturned
  
• Delay to curbs on toxic shipping emissions ‘would cause 200,000 extra premature deaths’
• First deal to curb aviation emissions agreed in landmark UN accord
• Romania bans trophy hunting of brown bears, wolves, lynx and wild cats
• Fossil fuel industry’s methane emissions far higher than thought
• ‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ far bigger than imagined, aerial survey shows
• Paris climate deal a ‘turning point’ in global warming fight, Obama says
• Scientists discover hidden world of Hawaii’s coral ‘twilight zone’
• Planet at its hottest in 115,000 years thanks to climate change, experts say
• BP platform leaks 95 tonnes of oil into North Sea
• Solar outstrips coal in past six months of UK electricity generation

Features and comment

• UK fracking decision is nothing short of hypocrisy | Damian Carrington
  
• Revealed: MRSA variant found in British pork at Asda and Sainsbury’s
• Six billion plastic bags can’t be wrong – so what do we tax next?
• Virtual reality project lets users see life as a doomed cow or piece of coral

Multimedia

• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• Wildscreen’s Witness the Wild open-air exhibition - in pictures
  
• President Obama and Leonardo DiCaprio talk climate change at the White House – video

On the blogs

• The seven big decisions made at the Cites global wildlife summit
• The future belongs to clean energy
• By failing to rein in climate change, our children’s rights are being disregarded

And finally...

• Cod may have regional accents that could affect their ability to ‘chat up’ a mate

Cornish fish moving north with climate change may struggle to understand Scouse counterparts, study says, making it harder for them to breed