Green news roundup

dger cull, biofuels and the great storm

The week’s top environment news stories and green events

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Environment editor
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 17 October 2012 12.04 EDT

Badger Cull : Posters put up by campaigners opposed to the culling of badgers.

Posters put up in the village of Hartpury by campaigners opposed to the culling of badgers, Gloucestershire, 1 October, 2012. Photograph: Alamy

Environment news

• Canadian government ‘knew of plans to dump iron into the Pacific’
• Badger cull opponents granted first Commons debate
• Cornwall and Scotland hold UK’s wave power potential
• Biofuels: EU weakens proposals to reduce indirect climate impact
• Billions needed to slow biodiversity loss, report warns
• Record number of rhinos killed illegally in South Africa in 2012

On the blogs

tmo biofuel-creating bacteria

• Will a badger cull work? | Leo Hickman
• We must accept that Britain cannot rely on world food supplies
• Biofuels industry does not deserve to be demonised
• Will US wind power splutter out if Mitt Romney cuts its subsidy?

Multimedia

The Great Storm 20th anniversary

• Nature’s patterns – your Green shoots photographs
• Ringing migratory birds at Spurn Point – in pictures
• Wakehurst Place: 25 years after the great storm – in pictures
• The week in wildlife – in pictures

Features

Kichwa Family by Napo River, Amazon Rain Forest, Ecuador

• Shaman and British wife embark on rainforest campaign against oil threat
• RSPB lodges EU complaint over Walshaw Moor controversy
• Great storm: a wind of change for conservationists

Best of the web

• Why the Mail on Sunday was wrong to claim global warming has stopped
• Will algae ever power our cars?
• Extreme weather adds urgency for action on climate change – panel
• UK tidal power potential estimated at 153GW

Green jobs

• Business Officer, National Planning and Conservation Department, National Heritage, London, Salary £22,921
• Chief Development Officer, Birdlife International, Cambridge, Salary starting from £50,000 plus generous pension
• Senior Policy and Practice Advisor – Agriculture, Practical Action, Rugby, Circa £45,000 – £47,000

…And finally

• Eyeball washed up on Florida beach ‘probably from large swordfish’ – video
Experts say a blue, grapefruit-sized eyeball which was found washed up on Pompano Beach in Florida on Wednesday is probably from a 10ft swordfish

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