Environment news
- More than half a million could die as climate change impacts diet – report
- African elephants ‘killed faster than they are being born’
- US agency reaches ‘holy grail’ of battery storage sought by Elon Musk and Gates
- Florida drops bill to open fracking in the Everglades after public outcry
- Leading brands unsure if palm oil in products comes from rainforest land
- WWF accused of facilitating human rights abuses of tribal people in Cameroon
- Greenland’s ice melt accelerating as surface darkens, raising sea levels
- UK government told to take action on air pollution or face legal challenge
- Climate activists threaten to shut down world’s major coal sites
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EU set to emit 2bn tonnes more CO2 than Paris climate pledge
Features and comment
- The owl man: saving the incredible bird you’ve probably never heard of
- How Leonardo DiCaprio became one of the world’s top climate change champions
- World’s biggest floating solar farm powers up outside London
- Why is 2016 smashing heat records?
- World wildlife day: Animals are being slaughtered one by one, not saved two by two
- UK energy policy is in disarray - but blackouts are unlikely
Multimedia
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The week in wildlife – in pictures
- Human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka – in pictures
- Living in Indonesia’s marine protected areas - in pictures
On the blogs
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Ted Cruz’s favorite temperature data just got a lot hotter
- On World Wildlife Day, let’s get serious about ending corruption
- Climate scientists worry about the costs of sea level rise
- Tiger country? Scientists uncover wild surprises in tribal Bangladesh
London masterclass on climate change
Do you want to understand more about climate change? On 14 March the Guardian’s assistant national news editor James Randerson is giving a masterclass on the topic in London. He’ll introduce the science and talk about predictions for what impact the changing climate will have - and discuss what we can do about it.
And finally ...
A new generation of wild eastern quolls - a small, carnivorous marsupial - from Tasmania has been released into a Canberra reserve in the hope of establishing a new population
