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Green news roundup: Water, GM debate and reader photos of bees

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Sewage : Rainwater flowing down a drain at the side of a road
GM protest

Environment news

• Most water companies not required to cut leaks before 2015 despite drought
• Diageo to end funding of Heartland Institute after climate change outburst
• Microsoft to go carbon neutral
• Conservative thinktanks step up attacks against Obama’s clean energy strategy
• Largest onshore windfarm in England and Wales gets go-ahead
• Warm water marine species spreading northwards into British waters

On the blogs

GM oilseed rape

• A chance to move the GM debate on
• The price worth paying for New York’s bike share
• Heartland Institute compares belief in global warming to mass murder
• Two-thirds of commuters think UK roads are ‘not safe enough for cycling’

Multimedia

2012 April Green shoots Flickr group on bee and bumble bee

• Bees: your Green shoots photographs
• In pictures : Week in wildlife
• Birds Strike Back: cartoons lampoon Thames estuary airport plans – in pictures
• Satellite eye on Earth: April 2012 – in pictures

Features

Japan give up on nuclear energy : liquefied natural gas (LNG) tank at Tokyo Gas Co Sodegaura plant

• Anxious Japan prepares for life without nuclear power
• Howard Atkinson: GM food saboteurs only destroy vital new knowledge
• The water industry is burying a leaking pipes scandal
• Wet weather helps ailing wildlife in England and Wales
• Jonathon Porritt: The eye-watering expense of nuclear power

Best of the web

• China mulling investment in UK’s new nuclear plans
• ‘Shameful’ plastic waste to be tackled by government
For more of the best environment comment and news from around the web, visit the Guardian Environment Network.

…And finally

• British asparagus season delayed by bad weather
Growers say the prolonged rain and unpredictable weather has delayed the start of the eagerly awaited season
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