Environment news

• Australia’s mining boom placing Great Barrier Reef at risk, UN warns
• Climate change could make Canada’s traditional ice hockey extinct
• BP settles Gulf of Mexico oil spill lawsuit
• Cheetah struggling to reproduce due to climate change, scientists warn
• Goldfinches wooed from farmland to British gardens
• Exxon in spotlight after Papua New Guinea landslide

On the blogs

• Is the government planning a further U-turn on selling our forests?
• Julia Roberts: how clean cookstoves can transform lives
• Sun, sewage and algae: a recipe for success?
• Lord Lawson’s links to Europe’s colossal coal polluter

Multimedia

• Satellite eye on Earth: January 2012 – in pictures
• Wadebridge, the UK’s first solar-powered town – video
• The week in wildlife – in pictures
• BP agrees $7.8bn payout over Gulf of Mexico oil spill – video

Features

• Michael Mann on climate wars: ‘the hockey stick did not suddenly appear out of left field’
• Wrexham leads Europe’s solar charge
• Here comes trouble: the return of the wild boar to Britain
• Is Antarctica getting warmer and gaining ice?

Best of the web

• ChinaDialogue: Panda breeding success ignores their disappearing habitat
• BusinessGreen: Controversial green energy report ‘very, very poor’, says government economist
• Carbon Commentary: Eden Project installs UK’s first employee-owned solar plant
For more of the best environment comment and news from around the web, visit the Guardian Environment Network.

… And finally

• Queen’s jubilee tree challenge reaches 1 million mark
Woodland Trust’s target of planting 6 million trees in Queen’s diamond jubilee year is on track