The GuardianNews US beekeepers lost 40% of honeybee colonies over past year, survey findsThe Guardian - Oliver Milman in New YorkBeekeepers across the US lost four in 10 of their honeybee colonies over the past year, as the worst winter on record for tracked bee populations raised fresh concerns over the plight of the crucial pollinators.
The GuardianEnvironment The Guatemalans who pay the price for the west’s need for nickelThe Guardian - Juliette Garside in GuatemalaThe road to Guatemala’s biggest nickel mine is barely visible through a cloud of red dust, churned up by the 25-tonne trucks that thunder past loaded with ore. From the choking haze a cyclist emerges,
The GuardianIndia News Himalayan glacier melting doubled since 2000, spy satellites showThe Guardian - Damian Carrington Environment editorThe melting of Himalayan glaciers has doubled since the turn of the century, with more than a quarter of all ice lost over the last four decades, scientists have revealed. The accelerating losses indicate
The GuardianEnvironment Asbaby the swan: terrorising Cambridge punters, just like his granddadThe GuardianAge: Unknown, though he has been cropping up in reports of violence since 2015. Location: The River Cam in Cambridge, which, like the city itself, is full of entitled students and tourists paying a fortune
The GuardianEnvironment Trump ditches sole climate rule that aimed to reduce coal plant pollutionThe Guardian - Emily Holden in WashingtonDonald Trump’s administration is finalizing plans to roll back the US government’s only direct efforts to curb coal-fired power plant pollution that is heating the planet. Trump’s Environmental Protection
The GuardianEnvironment How witnessing a police shooting put a Guatemalan journalist in dangerThe Guardian - Juliette GarsideIt was when police arrested his colleague in October 2017 that Carlos Choc realised it was becoming too dangerous for him to keep reporting. From the town of El Estor, and a member of the Maya Q’eqchi’
The GuardianEnvironment European-owned mine paid Guatemala just £1.4m in compulsory royalty taxesThe Guardian - Juliette GarsideGuatemala’s largest nickel mine paid just £1.4m in compulsory royalty taxes during its first four years of production, according to its latest filings. The opencast Fenix mine belongs to the Bronstein
The GuardianEnvironment Two-thirds of Britons want faster action on climate, poll findsThe Guardian - Sandra LavilleNearly 70% of British people want urgent political action to tackle climate change and protect the natural environment, according to research by a coalition of green charities. Theresa May, in one of last
The GuardianEnvironment Ammonia pollution damaging more than 60% of UK land – reportThe Guardian - Andrew Wasley, Alexandra Heal and Fiona HarveyAmmonia and nitrogen pollution, mostly from farms, is harming more than 60% of the UK’s land area and hitting the most sensitive habitats for plants and wildlife hardest, a government report has found,
The GuardianEnvironment UK set to host critical UN climate crisis summit at end of 2020The Guardian - Damian Carrington Environment editorThe UK is set to host a critical global summit on the climate crisis at the end of 2020, at which the world’s 190 nations must commit to deep cuts in emissions. It will be the most significant UN climate
The GuardianEnvironment Country diary: a flowery Blast from the industrial pastThe Guardian - Phil GatesStanding on these sea cliffs, surrounded by the fragrance of burnet roses, with sand martins scything across flowery grassland around me, it’s hard to believe that the bay below, known locally as “the
The GuardianSmuggling Man caught smuggling dozens of live finches into New York inside hair rollersThe Guardian - Associated PressA 39-year-old man has been caught allegedly trying to smuggle nearly three dozen live finches through John F Kennedy Airport in New York in order to sell them for singing competitions. Francis Gurahoo
The GuardianPlastic How you're recycling plastic wrong, from coffee cups to toothpasteThe Guardian - Charlotte SimmondsIt’s a familiar scene: you stand at the bin, trash in hand, and wonder: “Can I recycle this?” We tend to throw it in the recycling bin anyway, in the hope that some unknown person, somewhere else, will
The GuardianEnvironment UK climate plan unclear, says European commissionThe Guardian - Jennifer Rankin in BrusselsA British government climate action plan is “unclear” and lacks key details about how the UK will reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 12 years, the European commission has said. In a report UK
The GuardianEnvironment Murder, rape and claims of contamination at a Tanzanian goldmineThe Guardian - Jonathan Watts in TanzaniaWhen safari tourists drive to the Serengeti national park in Tanzania, few realise they are passing one of the world’s most contentious goldmines. From the escarpment above the plain, the North Mara facility
The GuardianCanadian News Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predictedThe Guardian - ReutersPermafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating even faster than
The GuardianOpinion (UK) Where have all the birds gone?The Guardian - LettersPlease could Theresa May, now freed of Brexit, include an urgent response to the rapid loss of wildlife (A new language needed for the climate crisis, 17 June) to her action list before she leaves? The
The GuardianEnvironment How writing about a goldmine cost a top reporter his jobThe Guardian - Jonathan Watts Global environment editorTwo years ago, Jabir Idrissa was one of Tanzania’s leading investigative journalists, breaking stories on alleged corruption, the environment and human rights abuses for two of the most respected publications
The GuardianEnvironment Tech firms to check suppliers after mining revelations in TanzaniaThe Guardian - Jonathan WattsElectronics companies, including Canon, Apple and Nokia, are re-evaluating their supply chains following reports they may be using gold extracted from a Tanzanian mine that has been criticised for environmental
The GuardianEnvironment Eskilstuna: how a Swedish town became the world capital of recyclingThe Guardian - Ammar Kalia‘People talk about Eskilstuna as the place where nothing new is invented,” says the shopping mall manager Anna Bergström. An hour’s train ride from Stockholm, the “Sheffield of Sweden” has had something
The GuardianAmazon Rainforest Environment reporters facing harassment and murder, study findsThe Guardian - Juliette Garside and Jonathan WattsThirteen journalists who were investigating damage to the environment have been killed in recent years and many more are suffering violence, harassment, intimidation and lawsuits, according to a study.
The GuardianEnvironment ‘Significant suffering’: experts call for national plan to save wombats from mangeThe Guardian - Alexandra SpringLast month Grasso wasn’t doing well. The bare-nosed wombat, dubbed Fatso in Italian, was infected with mange. The devastating skin disease caused by parasitic mites had left his skin crusted, bleeding
The GuardianEnvironment 'Epic photo': huntsman spider eats pygmy possum in AustraliaThe Guardian - Lisa MartinPygmy possums usually aren’t on the menu for huntsman spiders. But an Australian man from Tasmania has captured the rare moment a huntsman attempted to devour a tiny possum at a lodge in the Mount Field
The GuardianEnvironment Country diary: in the shake of a shrike's tailThe Guardian - Mark CockerBy the time we made it back to the Nelson Head pub, my trousers were soaked from the knee down and rain had seeped through the zip on my jacket so that the jumper below, and even the shirt next to my were
The GuardianIndia News Jagendra Singh: the Indian journalist burned to deathThe Guardian - Jonathan WattsShortly before his death, the independent journalist Jagendra Singh wrote a social media post about the threats he believed he faced for investigating sand mining in northern India. “Politicians, thugs,
The GuardianEnvironment Australia quizzed by EU and China on whether it can meet 2030 Paris climate targetThe Guardian - Katharine Murphy Political editorThe Morrison government has been challenged by the European Union and by China about whether it can meet its Paris commitments given rising emissions, and about growing pollution from vehicles, ahead a
The GuardianTransport for London The depressing lesson of west London's lost cycle routeThe Guardian - Peter WalkerMore or less every time a city orders a report into how expanding populations can be moved around in efficient ways that also improve liveability and sustainability, the same answer comes back: active
The GuardianBusiness Major global firms accused of concealing their environmental impactThe Guardian - Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondentA $10tn (£7.9tn) investor alliance has accused more than 700 companies, including Amazon, Tesco and ExxonMobil, of failing to reveal the full extent of their impact on the climate crisis, water shortages
The GuardianChernobyl Cuba’s generosity after ChernobylThe Guardian - LettersMillions have watched Chernobyl, the TV series about the 1986 nuclear meltdown, and your coverage has been extensive (Report, 13 June). But an important related story has not had a mention at this time
