Green news roundup: 50 months, deadly fungus and waste house

The week’s top environment news stories and green events

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Environment editor
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 October 2012 11.13 EDT

The Global Partnership for Oceans launched at World Ocean Summit : Australia's Great Barrier Reef

Fish on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Photograph: James Cook University/AFP/Getty Images

50 months to save the world

• 50 months to save the world – interactive
• Ignoring global warming is ‘reckless’ of the government, warn campaigners
• Andrew Simms: 50 months to avoid climate disaster – and a change is in the air
• 50 months to save the world – Twitter suggestions

Environment news

A technician checking equipment inside the Bushehr nuclear power plant, in April 2007.

• Great Barrier Reef loses more than half its coral cover
• Deadly fungus prompts ban on ash tree imports
• EU energy chief ‘satisfied’ with nuclear safety despite critical report
• Republican climate sceptics face battle for re-election as green groups hit back
• Campaign to push organic cotton as sales rise
• New UK nuclear power station plans suffer setback
• Government’s ‘green deal’ spurned by major retailers

On the blogs

Autumn colours

• The green deal still has big gaps to plug
• Capture the ephemeral spectacle of autumn colours
• Riding-hoods: how to beat the rain

Multimedia

Week in wildlife : Great Egret (Ardea alba) birds enjoy sunny weather on a lake in Antonin, Poland

• Great Barrier Reef loses more than half its coral cover – video
• UK’s first building to be made entirely from waste – video animation
• Satellite eye on Earth: September 2012 – in pictures
• The week in wildlife – in pictures

Features

• Kristin Davis: ‘Ivory is basically a blood diamond’
• The world-leading UK windfarm built with little British involvement
• Sainsbury’s boss welcomes grilling on green values and ambitions

Best of the web

• Can we bring back the wilderness?
• How GMOs unleashed a pesticide gusher
• Green light for power plant that will produce energy from waste

…And finally

• Plan to build UK’s first building entirely out of waste
Grand Designs’ model ecohouse to be rebuilt in Brighton city centre using local construction and industrial waste

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