Green News Round-up (The Guardian)

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Green news roundup: Arctic sea ice, badger cull and mega mine

The week’s top environment news stories and green events

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  • guardian.co.uk, Thursday 20 September 2012 11.22 EDT
Arctic Iceberg

An iceberg off Alaska, 30 miles long and 12 miles wide, halted Shell’s oil drilling operation. It is expected to resume soon. Photograph: Raimund Linke/Getty Images

Environment news

• Arctic ice shrinks 18% against record, sounding climate change alarm bells
• Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years
• Australian ‘mega mine’ plan threatens global emissions target
• Mass slaughter of farm animals set to push food prices up 14%
• UK windfarms generate record amount of power
• Man-made English saltmarshes ‘failing to meet European plant standards’
• First badger cull licence issued in England

On the blogs

Bike blog : An exemple of iconographic use of a bicycle : Dishroom restaurant in London

• Is there even less Arctic sea ice than the satellites show?
• Get used to ‘extreme’ weather, it’s the new normal
• New cycle safety campaign says: it’s everyone’s responsibility
• Donald Trump anti-wind power fundraiser fails to get off the ground

Multimedia

Week in wildlife : Wild flowers in South Africa

• Morocco’s renewable energy future – video
• Arctic sea ice before and after record low – interactive map
• The week in wildlife – in pictures

• Life on the shoreline – your Green shoots photographs
• Surviving off rubbish in Kenya’s slums – in pictures

… And finally

• How a smartphone could become an endangered cicada detector
• Scottish anti-wind turbine group’s ad rapped for using images of Hawaii
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