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Green news roundup: Doha talks, ivory industry and pesticides

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COP18 Doha Climate Change Conference, in Doha, Qatar

The eighteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP18) will take place from 26 November to 6 December 2012. Photograph: Osama Faisal/AP

Doha climate change conference

• UN: methane released from melting ice could push climate past tipping point
• 2012 expected to be ninth warmest year on record
• Doha 2012: US claims ‘enormous’ efforts to cut carbon emissions
• Analysis: The Kyoto protocol is not quite dead
• Doha climate talks: what to expect

Environment news

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• Campaigners sue EPA over carbon emissions
• Amazon deforestation hits record low
• Science under pressure as pesticide makers face MPs over bee threat
• Green investment bank officially launched by Vince Cable
• US coastal cities in danger as sea levels rise faster than expected, study warns
• Christmas shoppers told to expect potato and sprouts shortages

On the blogs

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• Doha: a strange place to host a climate-change conference
• Which really is more deadly: cycling or sitting down watching TV?
• Champion of the Chaco and saviour of Siberian tiger win conservation prize
• How best can the government curb supermarkets’ power?
• Has the Kyoto protocol made any difference to carbon emissions?

Multimedia

Tin mining in Indonesia

• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• Rolex award: ‘I believe the Amur tiger has a future’ – video
• Global climate talks timeline – interactive
• The highs and lows of 15 years of climate talks – in pictures
• Death metal: tin mining in Indonesia – in pictures

Features

• Siberia’s pesticide dumps may prove a bigger hazard than nuclear waste
• Why hasn’t the ivory industry been wiped out?
• Growing food in the desert: is this the solution to the world’s food crisis?
• Death metal: tin mining in Indonesia

Best of the web

• The dirty war against Africa’s rhinos
• China planning ‘huge fracking industry’
• Saudi Arabia announces $109bn solar strategy
• China defends carbon emissions growth

…And finally

• Light pollution can benefit some wildlife, study shows
Migratory birds in areas that were continuously illuminated foraged for longer and were able to locate food by sight
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