Green News Round-up (The Guardian)

Green Light: Arctic sea ice, Lonesome George and Rio+20

Inbox
x

The Guardian info@mail.guardian.co.uk
7:53 PM (5 minutes ago)

to me
Images are not displayed. Display images below – Always display images from info@mail.guardian.co.uk

Having trouble viewing this email?
The Guardian home
  • Green Light email banner

Green news roundup: Arctic sea ice, Lonesome George and Rio+20

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

Actic sea ice

Climate scientists believe the Arctic sea ice is on course to plummet to its lowest levels ever this year. Photgraph: Steven J Kazlowski/Alamy

Environment news

• Arctic sea-ice levels at record low for June
• Gabon burns ivory stockpiles
• US court upholds EPA’s greenhouse gas rules
• Plans for carbon-capture power station abandoned
• Sir David King: quantitative easing should be aimed at green economy
• Badger cull ‘not legal or scientific’, high court will hear

On the blogs

Gina Rinehart, chairwoman of Hancock Prospecting

• Is Gina Rinehart planning to use Fairfax to push her climate scepticism?
• Fuel duty U-turn highlights need for full service of motoring policy
• Farewell to Lonesome George, who never came out of his shell
• Why there’s only one honest objection to wind farms

Multimedia

Lonesome George

• Last giant tortoise Lonesome George dies aged 100 – video
• Sumatran rhino born in captivity – video
• Lonesome George, the last giant tortoise of his kind, dies – in pictures
• The week in wildlife – in pictures

Rio+20

Copacabana beach as the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20

• Rio +20 makes no fresh, green breast of the new world
• Rio+20 Earth Summit: campaigners decry final document
• Rio+20 summit: the final day as it happened

Best of the web

• James Murray: Environmentalism is not a religion
• Vestas scraps Kent offshore wind factory plan
• Government denies rift over wind power subsidies
For more of the best environment comment and news from around the web, visit the Guardian Environment Network.

… And finally

• Leaving appliances on standby ‘can cost UK households up to £86 a year’
Fully turning off everyday appliances could be a quick and cheap way for people to save on their energy bills, study finds

  • SKY_Int_Dev_Achievement_Awards_221112
  • Button_Charity_Awards_2012
  • Email Services


You are receiving this email because you are a Green Light subscriber.

Click here if you do not wish to receive Green Light emails from the Guardian News and Media.
Click here to find out about other Email Services from the Guardian.

Guardian News & Media Limited – a member of Guardian Media Group PLC. Registered Office: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9GU. Registered in England No. 908396

Comments

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.