Green news roundup: Mountain gorillas, windfarms and urban birds
The week’s top environment news stories and green events
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The Dutch government may face legal action over climate change. Photograph: Lourens Smak/Alamy
Environment news
• US can become world’s biggest oil producer in a decade, says IEA
• Dutch government may face legal action over climate change
• George Osborne undermining climate change efforts, his father-in-law claims
• Obama vows to take personal charge of climate change in second term
• Doha conference: carbon cuts talks must wait, says key negotiator
• Seal cull will not revive Canada’s cod stocks, say scientists
• Mountain gorilla numbers rise by 10%
On the blogs
• ‘End of story’ for windfarms and Tory green credentials
• Urban birds in the late autumn light
• How to stop ‘salmoning’, scourge of NYC’s bike lanes
• IEA report reminds us peak oil idea has gone up in flames
Multimedia
• How Brazil is halting deforestation in the Amazon – video
• Wildlife on a walk – your Green shoots photographs
• A murmuration of starlings over Gretna – in pictures
• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• Satellite eye on Earth: October 2012 – in pictures
Best of the web
• Wind industry could provide a fifth of global electricity by 2030
• Will Barack Obama seize the moment on climate change?
• Energy efficiency could replace 22 UK power stations
• US elections: five climate hawks who will take office in 2013
Features
• The GM tree plantations bred to satisfy the world’s energy needs
• Brazil’s Amazon rangers battle farmers’ burning business logic
• Al Gore’s views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL
• Ha Long Bay clean-up could force floating fishing village inland
• European bison back home on the range – in Russia
Green jobs
• Director of Natural Heritage, Northern Ireland Civil Service, Belfast, £63,360 – £77,500
• Digital Communications and Press Officer, Soil Association, Bristol, Somerset, £23,587
• Regional Flood and Coastal Risk Manager, Environment Agency, Reading, Berkshire and Exeter, Devon, £64,080 – £84,890 per annum + benefits
…And finally
• The beasts from Brazil: country aims to clone endangered species
Scientists set to clone species including jaguars, anteaters and wolves for zoos, but project is likely to concern conservationists
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