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Green news roundup: Arctic sea ice, Lonesome George and Rio+20

The week’s top environment news stories and green events

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Actic sea ice

Climate scientists believe the Arctic sea ice is on course to plummet to its lowest levels ever this year. Photgraph: Steven J Kazlowski/Alamy

Environment news

• Arctic sea-ice levels at record low for June
• Gabon burns ivory stockpiles
• US court upholds EPA’s greenhouse gas rules
• Plans for carbon-capture power station abandoned
• Sir David King: quantitative easing should be aimed at green economy
• Badger cull ‘not legal or scientific’, high court will hear

On the blogs

Gina Rinehart, chairwoman of Hancock Prospecting

• Is Gina Rinehart planning to use Fairfax to push her climate scepticism?
• Fuel duty U-turn highlights need for full service of motoring policy
• Farewell to Lonesome George, who never came out of his shell
• Why there’s only one honest objection to wind farms

Multimedia

Lonesome George

• Last giant tortoise Lonesome George dies aged 100 – video
• Sumatran rhino born in captivity – video
• Lonesome George, the last giant tortoise of his kind, dies – in pictures
• The week in wildlife – in pictures

Rio+20

Copacabana beach as the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20

• Rio +20 makes no fresh, green breast of the new world
• Rio+20 Earth Summit: campaigners decry final document
• Rio+20 summit: the final day as it happened

Best of the web

• James Murray: Environmentalism is not a religion
• Vestas scraps Kent offshore wind factory plan
• Government denies rift over wind power subsidies
For more of the best environment comment and news from around the web, visit the Guardian Environment Network.

… And finally

• Leaving appliances on standby ‘can cost UK households up to £86 a year’
Fully turning off everyday appliances could be a quick and cheap way for people to save on their energy bills, study finds
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