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US Environmental Protection Agency's bid to curb emissions from power plants / Inventor in Kenya wants everyone to become farmers / My web picks / UNESCO and Leonardo DiCaprio warn Australia over Great Barrier Reef (Photo: Penelope Clay)

What does the ban on Japan's Antarctic whaling mean? / Selling sewage to help boost sanitation in Kenya / My web picks / Deal to start mining the sea bed in Papua New Guinea / Reviews of the US documentary series Years of Living Dangerously   (Photo: Penelope Clay)

Two new schemes to monitor rainfall and deforestation from Space / My web picks / Apple CEO Tim Cook tells climate skeptic think tank where to stick their money / A community's love for one tree (Photo: Penelope Clay)

Typhoon Haiyan fails to whip up a frenzy of action in Warsaw / My web picks / Could the Arctic 30 arrests have a chilling effect on direct action? / Marine reserves in the Antarctic stymied / Is this the most anti-environment ad ever?   (Photo: Penelope Clay)

World's 'largest illegal dolphin slaughter' / Battle for control of airline emissions / My top environmental web picks / Banning damaging PIB dumping at sea / Australian bushfires: No climate change link, says PM / Trees that point to gold  (Photo: Penelope Clay)

Reaction around the world to the IPCC's fifth climate report / This week's web picks / Latest on 30 Greenpeace activists detained in Russia / Using goats at green mowers / The great gig in the sky (actually on a wind turbine)   (Photo: Penelope Clay)

The Divest Fossil Fuel movement sweeping the US / My top web picks / Singapore haze / Britain's energy quagmire / A farmer's response to fly feed  (Photo: Penelope Clay)

Astronaut Chris Hadfield returns to Earth a celebrity / Timetable agreed for ending EU fish discards / Eat insects, says UN / Top picks in environmental news / Peugeot pioneers air-powered car / Report: 97% of scientists agree on man-made global warming / Baboons reveal clues about our vocal ancestors  (Photo: Penelope Clay)

Can pumping wastewater from the oil industry underground cause earthquakes? / The ExxonMobil pipeline spill in Arkansas / Combatting ash dieback by planting more trees / Stricter sulphur limits for car fuels in the US / Are MSC-labelled fish being mislabelled? (Answer: No) / Will Pope Francis be the greenest pontiff yet? / Breeding frogs in captivity to save a species   (Photo: Penelope Clay)

Efforts to stop the deepening crisis over ivory poaching / Fish fraud: A third of US products mislabelled / More than 7,500 dead pigs found in Chinese river / Keystone XL passes environmental impact report / Mars Rover finds evidence that life could have existed / 2012 saw second steepest CO2 rise since records began / President Obama appoints environment champions / Should weather forecasters talk about climate change? / Grand Prix to go electric   (Photo: Penelope Clay)

Europe's horse meat scandal / EU ministers vote for a phased ban on fish discards / EU plans boost to cap and trade scheme by withholding new permits / Global Ocean Commission formed to look at threats to the High Seas / Chinese businessman offers reward for river dip / The sound of glaciers melting / Museum find raises hopes for 'extinct' Australian oddity   (Photo: Penelope Clay) Mother Jones: The sound of glaciers

President Obama's inaugural address / Why mackerel could be off the menu in Europe / NASA prepares to launch latest Earth-monitoring satellite / A global treaty to phase out mercury / BP to pay penalties totalling $4bn / Shell not responsible for oil leaks in Niger Delta / McDonald's to use sustainable fish / Beijing's air pollution goes off the scale  (Photo: Penelope Clay)

Bushfires engulf southern Australia / Beached Kulluk drilling platform proves a major headache for Shell / Report: Half of the food produced on Earth is wasted / Transocean to plead guilty over Gulf oil spill / Kenya's largest ivory poaching massacre / Lake Ellsworth team downs tools / Ghana bans imports of fridges / Record price paid for bluefin tuna in Japan / Wanted: Volunteers to colonise Mars  (Photo credit: Penelope Clay) New CoolGreen News blog ITV News' coverage of Kenya's poaching problem

Will the COP18 climate talks in Doha be another cop-out? / The world's rarest whale washes up on a New Zealand beach / What Mayans can teach us about climate adaptation / 'The Age We Made' radio series on the BBC / Why Bananas could be the food of the future   (Photo: Penelope Clay) BBC Discovery - The Age We Made Gaia Vince's blog Banana cake recipe

Can Hurricane Sandy break the silence on climate change in the presidential campaigns? / The fungal threat to Britain's ash trees / The whale that just wants to talk / Report: Fukushima fish inedible for a decade / New target on reducing gas flaring / Coral reefs healthy deep down / David Attenborough on birth control and climate deniers   (Photo: Penelope Clay)

There's a rogue engineer on the loose / How much would it cost to save all endangered animals on earth? / Tepco admits responsibility for Fukushima meltdowns / Tanzania applies for permission to sell ivory stockpile / Saudi Arabia plans to go green / Russia to salvage two sunken nuclear subs / Why a four-day week could be good for you and the environment   (Photo: penelope Clay) Businessman Russ George defends experiment seeding Pacific with iron sulphate Guardian: World's biggest geoengineering experiment 'violates' UN rules

Tracking blue whales with their song / Could liquified air solve the biggest problem with renewable energy? / The curious case of the technicolour honey / European stress tests show nuclear reactors 'satisfactory' / Californians get ready to vote on GM food labelling / Study: Climate skeptics get more coverage in the US and UK / Barry Commoner dies aged 95 / Arnold Schwarzenegger's green faux pas    (Photo: Penelope Clay) Barry Commoner Obituary - NYT

50 years on from the book that founded the environmental movement / Western Australia changes law to make it easier to kill sharks / Why climate change is making fish smaller / A warning against Arctic drilling from the chief of Total / US Senate passes aviation bill to spite EU Emissions Trading Scheme / Fact: Turtles like the smell of cabbage / Earthquakes reveal tectonic changes in the earth's crust / Google Earth offers users the chance to go underwater   (Photo: Penelope Clay) The Guardian on Silent Spring's legacy Google Oceans

A landmark year in the melting of the Arctic / Are westerners ending their love affair with cars? / EU to cap biofuels from food crops / Shell postpones drilling in the Chukchi Sea / Tasmania bans supertrawler after protest / Tennessee's bat cave / Japan: A future for nuclear power / How DNA testing can beat illegal logging / Sing for the climate   (Photo: Penelope Clay)

A brilliant invention that allows young fish to escape from nets / EU and Australia agree to link their emissions trading schemes / Hunger warning from the World Bank / Shell gets go-ahead to start exploratory drilling in Chukchi Sea / Sea Shepherd head Paul Watson plans to return to the sea / EU calls time on incandescent light bulbs / India joins race to mine the seabed / Bugs are endangered too - and they're earning their keep!   (Photo: Penelope Clay) About SafetyNet