Green news roundup: Lost bumblebee, shale gas and ‘ethical’ veal 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 Environment editor guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 30 May 2012 06.42 EDT Bombus subterraneus, a bumble bee last seen in Britain in 1988. Farmers and conservationists are working to help an introduced colony breed in Kent. Photograph: Alamy Environment news • ‘Golden age of gas’ threatens renewable energy, IEA warns • Gas rebranded as green energy by EU • Bumblebee lost to UK makes comeback on Dungeness shingle • EU greenhouse gas emissions rise despite climate change policies • Solar power generation world record set in Germany • RBS involved in £40bn loans to fossil fuel companies in past six months • Brazil’s leader vetoes portions of new Amazon rainforest law • GM crop-trial website taken down by cyber-attack On the blogs • How green is shale gas? • Hosepipe ban: what is allowed? • John Sauven: Who’s got their hands on all our fish? • The truth about Germany’s nuclear phase-out Multimedia • Week in wildlife – in pictures • Them and us: endangered animals – in pictures • Leuser, the Sumatran orangutan shot 62 times – in pictures • The Hard Rain Project Whole Earth exhibition – in pictures Features • Sustainable development flourishing in Wales’s green economy • Are solar, wind and marine power too intermittent to be useful? • British veal poised for an ‘ethical’ comeback • How EU farming policies led to a collapse in Europe’s bird population Best of the web • IPS: IKEA under fire for ancient tree logging • BusinessGreen: Renewable energy investors fear UK dash for gas, says Ernst & Young • Ecologist: How Fairtrade bananas are failing migrant workers • BusinessGreen: UK green economy grew £5.4bn in 2011 For more of the best environment comment and news from around the web, visit the Guardian Environment Network. …And finally • Tuna contaminated with Fukushima radiation found in California Scientists amazed that bluefins swimming in Pacific five months after Japanese disaster contained tiny amounts of caesium Share Tweet this

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