Green news roundup: Great Barrier Reef threat, Satellite eye pictures and Michael Mann book extract The week’s top environment news stories and green events • If you’re not already receiving this roundup, sign up here to get the briefing delivered to your inbox Environment editor guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 7 March 2012 10.09 EST Divers unveil a Greenpeace banner at Sydney Aquarium urging Unesco to protect Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Photograph: Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images Environment news • Australia’s mining boom placing Great Barrier Reef at risk, UN warns • Climate change could make Canada’s traditional ice hockey extinct • BP settles Gulf of Mexico oil spill lawsuit • Cheetah struggling to reproduce due to climate change, scientists warn • Goldfinches wooed from farmland to British gardens • Exxon in spotlight after Papua New Guinea landslide On the blogs • Is the government planning a further U-turn on selling our forests? • Julia Roberts: how clean cookstoves can transform lives • Sun, sewage and algae: a recipe for success? • Lord Lawson’s links to Europe’s colossal coal polluter Multimedia • Satellite eye on Earth: January 2012 – in pictures • Wadebridge, the UK’s first solar-powered town – video • The week in wildlife – in pictures • BP agrees $7.8bn payout over Gulf of Mexico oil spill – video Features • Michael Mann on climate wars: ‘the hockey stick did not suddenly appear out of left field’ • Wrexham leads Europe’s solar charge • Here comes trouble: the return of the wild boar to Britain • Is Antarctica getting warmer and gaining ice? Best of the web • ChinaDialogue: Panda breeding success ignores their disappearing habitat • BusinessGreen: Controversial green energy report ‘very, very poor’, says government economist • Carbon Commentary: Eden Project installs UK’s first employee-owned solar plant For more of the best environment comment and news from around the web, visit the Guardian Environment Network. … And finally • Queen’s jubilee tree challenge reaches 1 million mark Woodland Trust’s target of planting 6 million trees in Queen’s diamond jubilee year is on track

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