Environment news
- England’s best-loved wildlife still in serious decline, report shows
- Obama to create world’s largest protected marine area off Hawaii
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Human-induced climate change began earlier than previously thought
- British public back strong new wildlife laws post-Brexit, YouGov poll shows
- Microplastics should be banned in cosmetics to save oceans, MPs say
- Swimming with dolphins could end as ‘self-gratifying selfies’ pose threat
- Investors controlling $13tn call on G20 leaders to ratify Paris climate agreement
- Badger cull protesters change tactics in response to expansion
- Storms devastate monarch butterflies’ forest habitat in Mexico
Features and comment
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Fear of the light: why we need darkness | Amanda Petrusich
- Global warming is melting the Greenland Ice Sheet, fast | John Abraham
- ‘Next year or the year after, the Arctic will be free of ice’
- Balkan countries unite in a war on waste
- Synthetic prawns: a bid to make ‘seafood’ that’s sustainable and slavery-free
Multimedia
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Sunrise to sunset: stunning timelapse video of America’s national parks
- The week in wildlife – in pictures
- Vintage films show risky (and hilarious) behavior in US national parks – video
And finally...
Locals were left uneasy at the sight of hundreds of baseball-like orbs washed ashore near Penzance. But what were they and why were they there?