Green Light: Fossil fuels divestment, Keystone XL and fracking

Green news roundup: Fossil fuels divestment, Keystone XL and fracking The week's top environment news stories and green events • Sign up here to get the briefing delivered to your inbox Environment editor theguardian.com, Friday 16 January 2015 07.46 EST The view of the Amazon forest. Researchers say that of the nine processes needed to sustain life on Earth, four have exceeded 'safe' levels. Photograph: Reuters Environment news • Rate of environmental degradation puts life on Earth at risk, say scientists • Axa warns that companies linked to fossil fuels risk their reputations • Pope Francis says climate change is mostly man's fault • Harvard defies divestment campaigners and invests tens of millions of dollars in fossil fuels • Companies will be legally required to reveal chemicals used for fracking • High gold prices causing increased deforestation in South America, study finds • 'Green' biomass boilers may waste billions in public money • Ten Democratic senators vote with Republicans for Keystone XL pipeline • Barack Obama moves to cut US methane emissions by almost half • GM crops to be fast-tracked in UK following EU vote On the blogs • Bike blog: Is it OK to get off your bike and walk up a hill? • Indonesia's new marine laws threaten sustainable fisheries • 'If First Milk goes, that will finish my business overnight' • The Antarctic ice sheet is a sleeping giant, beginning to stir • Climate denier Ted Cruz will oversee Nasa – what could possibly go wrong? • Does Europe's coke habit mean massacring 'uncontacted' indigenous people? Multimedia • 15 of the hottest spots around the world in 2014 - interactive • Hebei's steel cities and China's pollution crisis – in pictures • Blind orangutan released into the wild in Indonesia after sight restored – video • The week in wildlife – in pictures Features and comment • Jonathon Porritt: It is 'impossible' for today's big oil companies to adapt to climate change • Will Gadd: 'We were climbing ice that isn't going to be there next week' • The mystery of the missing hen harriers • Poland's shale gas revolution evaporates in face of environmental protests • Pollutionwatch: Please don't keep the home fires burning ...And finally • Iceland brewery makes beer using smoked whale testicles Conservationists hit out at the whaling industry's attempt to create a market for its products and criticised the use of an endangered creature's intimate body parts as a marketing tool.