Whaling, extreme weather and a poem for climate change – green news roundup

Poets Aka Niviana and Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner’s new poem is a climate change call to arms. Photograph: 350.org

Environment news

• Europe’s farmers on red alert as deadly African swine fever spreads to Belgium

• Whaling vote: Australia tells Japan it has lost argument for killings

• Climate change means Hurricane Florence will dump 50% more rain

• EU climate law could cause ‘catastrophic’ deforestation

• Public must tell Network Rail to stop tree felling, says charity

• New edible mushrooms among thousands of recently discovered fungi

• Urgent greenhouse gas removal plan could see UK hit ‘net zero’ target – report

• Air pollution is ‘biggest environmental health risk’ in Europe

• Global hunger levels rising due to extreme weather, UN warns

• Global demand for fossil fuels will peak in 2023, says thinktank

In depth

• High ice and hard truth: the poets taking on climate change

• Electric future? Global push to move away from gas-powered cars

• Gove’s farming shake-up is a missed opportunity for health and harmony

• A road full of bottlenecks: Dutch cycle path is made of plastic waste

Multimedia

Week in wildlife: a close encounter with a lion at Taigan safari park, Crimea. Photograph: Sergei Malgavko/TASS

• The week in wildlife – in pictures

• The strange science of melting ice sheets: three things you didn’t know

• Air, Land & Sea: the 50 greatest wildlife photographs – in pictures

• Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards - in pictures

And finally …

‘One of the boys’: lost narwhal finds new home with band of beluga whales