Wildlife poaching, snow leopards and climate change denial – green news roundup

The snow leopard is so elusive it’s often called the ‘ghost of the mountains’ but the first step to saving it is to obtain an accurate picture of populations. Photograph: Sailyugem National Park/WWF Russia

Environment news

• EPA head Scott Pruitt denies that carbon dioxide causes global warming
  
• UN experts denounce ‘myth’ pesticides are necessary to feed the world
• Great Barrier Reef bleached for unprecedented second year running
• Climate change impacts are already hitting us, say Europeans
• Pollution responsible for quarter of deaths of young children, says WHO
• Police to visit UK zoos and wildlife parks after rhino killing in France
• Solar power growth leaps by 50% worldwide thanks to US and China
• Climate change impact on Australia may be irreversible, five-yearly report says
• UK carbon emissions drop to lowest level since 19th century, study finds
• Poachers kill one of Africa’s last remaining ‘big tusker’ elephants

In depth

• Russia’s rare snow leopards find protection in camera traps
  
• British-owned cruise ship wrecks one of Indonesia’s best coral reefs
• Too close for comfort: campaign aims to give cyclists safe space
• Can elephants and humans live together?

Multimedia

• The week in wildlife – in pictures
  
• Sea turtle recovering after 915 coins removed from stomach – video report

And finally ...

• Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers

A bitter battle is raging within the mole-catching community over the kindest way to carry out their deadly work