Green news roundup: pine martens, eco homes and warming oceans

This article titled “Green news roundup: pine martens, eco homes and warming oceans” was written by Environment editor, for theguardian.com on Friday 17th July 2015 14.14 UTC

Environment news

• Warming of oceans due to climate change is unstoppable, say US scientists
• UK government gags advisers in bees and pesticides row
• ExxonMobil gave millions to climate-denying lawmakers despite pledge
• Al Gore criticizes Obama on climate change and ‘insane’ Arctic drilling
• British overnment makes U-turn over fracking in precious wildlife sites
• Weedkiller suspected of causing cancer deemed ‘safe’
• Climate change threat must be taken as seriously as nuclear war – UK minister
• Nearly 9,500 people die each year in London because of air pollution – study
• Britain’s first ‘energy positive’ house opens in Wales
• Leonardo DiCaprio to donate £15m for environmental causes

On the blogs

• No, the sun isn’t going to save us from global warming
• Global warming is causing rain to melt the Greenland ice sheet
• How learning to cycle is helping London’s asylum seekers
• Preventing ecocide in South China Sea
• Is it time to bring back bushmeat?

Multimedia

• Can drilling in the Arctic help save the climate? – video
• The big butterfly count 2015 – in pictures
• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• In exclusive interview Al Gore says climate deniers won’t win – video
• Vivienne Westwood launches celebrity Arctic campaign

Features and comment

• Can Germany protect the wildlife havens on its former military bases?
• What clean power is really doing to British energy bills
• Five lessons from the fossil fuel divestment movement
• George Monbiot: Let’s make Britain wild again and find ourselves in nature
• Why these grandparents are fighting climate change
• Gas surges ahead of coal in US power generation
• Heathrow airport protest is part of a long runway of shifting debates
• 15 species that should be brought back to rewild Britain

And finally …

• Pine marten spotted in England for the first time in over 100 years

Elusive cat-sized member of the stoat and weasel family believed to be extinct may have been living in the Shropshire hills for years

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