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Magnum photographer Stuart Franklin visits Louisiana where the Grand Isle community is dealing with the aftermath of the spill

Healing dolphins, a donkey-zebra hybrid and England's most dangerous fish - the pick of this week's images from the natural world

We asked our bike bloggers and Twitter followers to suggest cycle-themed books to read on your holidays. Here's the best of the bunchWhether your summer break is an epic two-wheeled trek on a rugged tourer kitted out with fully loaded panniers, or a relaxing week lying on the beach, you may be ponde

In the dead of last night an animal cried out. Not once, not twice, but with sleep-breaking persistence. I lay in bed for a few moments, trying to make sense of the noises from the garden below - curious hybrid sounds that were half nasal duck and half snorting pig. "Meck!"Hanging out over the windo

For Tim Gautreaux, a Louisiana local whose family is immersed in the oil industry, the BP leak means the death of his whole community. And things can only get worse...Those who live in Louisiana all their lives develop an understanding of disaster. We know a hurricane can turn over hundreds of offsh

BP appoints US government expert to help recovery as it prepares to permanently plug gulf well with cementAs the visible oil in the Gulf of Mexico dwindles, the incoming boss of BP has said it could be time to scale down the vast operation to clean up the damage wreaked by the company's Deepwater Ho

Agony aunt and 'humanzee' Carole Jahme prepares to take audiences on an evolutionary journey in her new show at the Edinburgh Festival FringeI have devised a comic science show to mark the International Year of Biodiversity 2010, Carole Jahme Is Bio-diverse!, which premieres at this year's Edinburgh

Where are the new London cycle hire docking locations? See a map, get a list and download the whole lot as a spreadsheet? Get the map and dataUp to 5,000 bikes at 300 "docking stations" have been made available for hire today for the launch of Boris Johnson's Barclays Cycle Hire scheme.Interestingly

The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association for the first time sent its Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) on an under-ice mission at about 79° North. The four-metre-long, torpedo shaped underwater vehicle was deployed from the research icebreaker Polarstern under heavy pack ice. The vehicle was subsequently recovered by helicopter.

Governments waste review must raise recycling targets

UK energy use down but due to recession not action

A United Nations panel has voted to remove Ecuador's Galápagos Islands from its list of endangered sites