Environment news

• Droughts could hit food production in England in 2020s, report warns
• Tidal power from Pentland firth ‘could provide half of Scotland’s electricity’
• Great Barrier Reef’s condition declined from moderate to poor in 2011
• China’s reliance on coal reduces life expectancy by 5.5 years, says study
• Future of UK offshore wind power in ‘serious doubt’
• Biofuels plant opens to become UK’s biggest buyer of wheat

On the blogs

• Guns will not win the war against elephant poachers
• George Monbiot: The National Farmers’ Union secures so much public cash yet gives nothing back
• Antarctic krill face unhappy Hollywood ending if fossil fuel emissions keep rising
• Charles Krauthammer’s flat-earther global warming folly
• ‘Wild’ animals in travelling circuses benefit no one
• Tony Abbott’s climate policy is just a figleaf developed by deniers

Multimedia

• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• How to set up your bicycle like a pro – video
• Hebrides: Islands On The Edge – in pictures
• Chinese beaches overwhelmed by algae – in pictures

Best of the web

• Australian heatwaves ‘five times more likely due to global warming’
• US has failed to protect marine life, say conservationists
• Stephen Emmott’s population book is unscientific and misanthropic
• Why Obama ditched green jobs from his climate change rhetoric
• 2C climate target is half of what is needed, say scientists

…And finally

• Google hosts fundraiser for climate change denying US senator
Proceeds of the lunch, priced at $250 to $2,500, will benefit the Republican Jim Inhofe, who calls climate change a ‘hoax’