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Green news roundup: Drought-hit fish, carbon capture and Rick Perry

The week’s top environment news stories and green events

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Fish rescue teams on the river Rye 3/4/12

Fish rescue teams on the river Rye near Helmsley. Photograph: Mark Pinder

Environment news

• New push for carbon capture and storage with £1bn competition
• David Cameron to make keynote environment speech
• Rescue squads sent in to save drought-hit fish
• Rick Perry criticises UK initiative to influence US climate sceptics
• Multinationals vow to boycott APP after outcry over illegal logging

On the blogs

Bike blog : Woman mountain biker cycling across extreme terrain in bright sunlight

• Is the UK right to invest in carbon capture technology?
• How women can stop cycling from being a pain in the arse
• The Arctic Sunrise plays a game of bluff and counter bluff
• Nuclear and gas blow outs show where the dumb money is

Multimedia

Carbon Trust Footprinting Gallery Exhibition

• The Carbon Trust’s footprinting exhibition – in pictures
• Satellite eye on Earth: March 2012 – in pictures
• Earth Hour plunges global landmarks into darkness – video
• A guide to carbon capture technologies – interactive
• The week in wildlife – in pictures

Features and comment

• Is the EU taking its over-fishing habits to west African waters?
• Photographing bees offers a great insight into their fascinating world
• Connie Hedegaard: ‘Polluter pays’ is the only principle that can limit aviation emissions
• Dustin Benton: New plans for carbon capture must not repeat mistakes of the past
•  Andrew Simms: Cut the country some slack and introduce national gardening leave

Best of the web

• Yale Environment 360: Bill McKibben on Keystone XL and the power of fossil fuel industry
• EurActiv: EU carbon target threatened by biomass ‘insanity’
• BusinessGreen: Ford Focus Electric will use ‘build-to-order’ sales model
For more of the best environment comment and news from around the web, visit the Guardian Environment Network.

…And finally

• Earth Hour watched over from space as the lights go out
The event had live commentary from space as landmarks from the Eiffel Tower to the Sydney Opera House switched off their lights

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