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Green news roundup: Pollution, pesticides and peat

The week’s top environment news stories and green events

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• £20m wave energy competition unveiled
• Chilean court rejects opposition to Patagonia dam

On the blogs

A peat bog on the North York Moors

• Grave threat of pesticides to bees’ billion-pound bonanza is now clear
• Boris Johnson, gluing pollution to the ground is no way to clean up London
• Vicious words mark the war between pro and anti-nuclear environmentalists
• Austerity has not made people care less about the environment
• Gardeners should end their love affair with peat

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• Pantanal: protecting the world’s largest wetland – video
• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• Water photography – your Green Shoots photographs
• Delivering lambs at Great Tre-rhew Farm – in pictures

Features and comment

• Pollutionwatch: UK experienced top levels of air pollution in March
• Ethical living: how do I water my homegrown veg?
• Caroline Spelman: The UK must adjust to ever-changing weather events
• Drought hits bluebell numbers over Easter weekend
• Q&A: How will the hosepipe ban affect you?

Best of the web

• £540m insulation scheme targets fuel poor households
• Story of illegally dumped chromium in China wins environmental press award
• How the internet is powering the fight against Beijing’s dirty air
For more of the best environment comment and news from around the web, visit the Guardian Environment Network.

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