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Japan's stricken nuclear plant. Photograph: Tepco/AFP/Getty Images
Japan's stricken nuclear plant. Photograph: Tepco/AFP/Getty Images

Green news round-up: Nuclear power, adder abnormalities and Earth Hour in pictures

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Climate and energy

Fukushima disaster causes fallout for nuclear industry worldwide
Nuclear is the safest form of power, says top UK scientist
UK slips down global green investment rankings
Smart meters predicted to save UK households £23 a year by 2020
Lord Lawson's 'misleading' climate claims challenged by scientific adviser

Wildlife

adder testing : genetic survey of the UK’s only venomous snake
Genetic survey of the UK’s only venomous snake, the adder, on a Wildlife Trust site near Farnham, Surrey, March 24, 2011 Photograph: Beth Rose/ZSL

Adder abnormalities lead to UK's first genetic survey of snakes
India's tiger numbers increase for first time in a decade, says census
Serengeti highway threatens national park's wildebeest migration
Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom

Multimedia

Agricultural pattern
Resembling a work of modern art, variegated green crop circles cover what was once shortgrass prairie in southwestern Kansas, on June 24, 2001. Photograph: NASA

Agricultural patterns from space – in pictures
Below the waste line: Rolling with London's bin men - video
Genetic survey of adders - in pictures
Earth Hour - in pictures

Green living

The Nissan Leaf
All new buildings in San Francisco will be wired for electric car chargers in anticipation of the release of vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf Photograph: Frank Franklin II/AP

Nissan Leaf charges into UK car showrooms
Cycling England will soon be no more – but what can its successors achieve?
Neil Ansell: My life as a hermit
Why don't governments push for more hydrogen cars?

From the blogs

Get the most from your car with these top 12 'hypermiling' tips
British Summer Time lets us strengthen our relationship with nature
Caroline Lucas: George Osborne's budget is a betrayal of our environment

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