We’re now on Android

This week we launched our environment news app on Android, joining our successful iPhone app. Let us know what you think, on Google Play, and our blog.

Environment news

• Heavy rains affecting water quality at UK beaches
• Nuclear waste ‘may be blighting 1,000 UK sites’
• UK may need standpipes if drought continues, environment secretary warns
• Study finds even polar bear cubs can swim huge distances in open water
• Boris Johnson resisted Labour appeal to tackle London air pollution
• Anti-GM activists urged not to trash wheat field
• Australia lists the koala as a threatened species

On the blogs

• The cargo bike – somewhere in between the courier and the truck
• Leadership is the answer to the right’s problem with climate change
• Art’s connection with nature is not just limited to a lens
• Lancashire schoolgirl wins chance to address MEPs with anti-fracking video

Multimedia

• Google+ Hangout with George Monbiot on the environment – video
• Birds Strike Back: cartoons lampoon Thames Estuary airport plans – in pictures
• The Gujarat Solar Park at Charanka
• Satellite eye on Earth: April 2012 – in pictures
• Cambodian environmental activist Chut Wutty – video profile
• Testdriving the new generation of electric cars – video
• GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2012 – in pictures

Features and comment

• Who is responsible for the death of Cambodia’s foremost forest activist?
• Shell’s stance on wind power reveals a profound truth of capitalism
• Vauxhall predicts Ampera will boost electric car sales
• The infighting that threatens to undermine US nuclear safety

…And finally

• Mating calls for mobiles: are you a gorilla or a frog?
The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust has created ringtones from six endangered species. You will not miss a call again