Green news roundup: Rio+20, summer rain and fishing discards 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, Thursday 14 June 2012 07.06 EDT Fishermen on board the ‘Nuevo San Cibran’ sort the catch during a fishing trip off the coast of Galicia. Photograph: Miguel Riopa/AFP/Getty Images Environment news • Rio+20 Earth summit: scientists call for action on population • GM crops good for environment, study finds • Fishing discards practice thrown overboard by EU • Japanese mayor approves plan to restart nuclear power plant • End of hosepipe ban to benefit 15 million people • Australia creates world’s largest marine reserve network On the blogs • Why climate change needs higher energy bills • MPs to investigate the economics of wind power • America’s love affair with the motor car is running on empty • The upsides of cycling in summer rain Multimedia • Rio+20 Earth summit: Amazon deforestation – in pictures • Treasured green spaces – your Green shoots photographs • Species and habitats found in recommended marine conservation zones – in pictures • Satellite eye on Earth: May 2012 Features and comment • Coal’s resurgence undermines fight against global warming • Climate change protest website reported to police • John Gummer: Why Rio failed in the past and how it can succeed this time • Brazil’s blueprint for reforestation Best of the web • Sharp relocating solar HQ from Germany to UK • ‘The problem for coal right now is entirely economic’ – EPA’s Lisa Jackson • Green Party leader hopefuls launch bids For more of the best environment comment and news from around the web, visit the Guardian Environment Network. …And finally • Alfredo Sirkis – the former bank robber with his sights set on Rio+20 His criminal past may be gone, but the revolutionary spirit of Sirkis lives on to attack complacency at the Rio Earth summit

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