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Green news roundup: Aviation tax, Hinkley delay and green deal

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Environment news

• Earth’s environment getting worse, not better, says WWF ahead of Rio+20
• David Cameron briefed on concerns over green deal for homeowners
• Geoengineering experiment cancelled due to perceived conflict of interest
• UK carbon targets ‘at risk over local authority funding cuts’
• William Hague tells ministers to help green industries boost economy
• EU hails airline emissions tax success
• Hinkley nuclear power station delay deals blow to government hopes

On the blogs

December Green shoots on Wetland in winter : Severn Estuary wetland

• Eco Audit: Should a tidal barrage be built across the Severn estuary?
• Luxembourg by e-bike: a natural high
• Charles Rothschild’s incredible legacy on the Wildlife Trust’s 100th birthday
• Lies, damn lies, and statistics about red light jumping

Multimedia

Week in wildlife : An Indian villager bathes a parrot

• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• Birdwatching at Wormwood Scrubs – audio slideshow
• American rivers under threat – interactive
• WWF Living Planet Report: Monitoring Global Biodiversity

Features and comment

Food waste

• UK families waste £270 a year on discarded food
• Test your knowledge of urban wildlife – quiz
• Ben Caldecott: Only biofuels will cut plane emissions
• Caroline Spelman: Britain is rising to the challenge of greening our economy
• North Dakota: riding the oil rush
• North Dakota oil boom: thousands pin their dreams on striking it rich
• The Figueres family led Costa Rica’s revolution, and now its green revolution

…And finally

• Australian project simulates effects of runaway climate change
Multimillion-dollar study subjects bushland to heightened CO2 levels and altered rainfall patterns
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