This is a weekly email briefing from environmentguardian.co.uk, bringing you the best news, analysis and debateEditor's picksRelease of Life On Earth soundtrack delivers music as pioneering as the show Simplicity and sustainability: Inside Stanbrook Abbey, the new eco-friendly nunneryThe sex life of seahorsesIt may not have the potential to re-order the world's economic system and tackle climate change like the UN climate talks currently under way in Barcelona, but I was very excited by the news that the soundtrack to Sir David Attenborough's natural history series Life on Earth was released this week. Listening to its dramatic orchestral sweep again took me immediately back to a TV programme that helped shape my interest in biology and conservation — as I suspect it did for many others. Another cracking story was the tale of the nuns of Stanbrook Abbey who have moved to a new eco-home. They invited the Guardian in for a sneak peek. And we also have news of the only species in which males truly become pregnant.ConservationOne in five mammal species on extinction 'red list'In pictures: IUCN list of threatened speciesData: Endangered species by country Golf courses can help save Britain's threatened birdies, says RSPB Interactive: Find a bird speciesThe annual roll call of endangered species from the IUCN was released this week. The Red List never makes uplifting reading and this year was no different with a fifth of the world's known mammals, a third of its amphibians and more than a quarter of reptiles now threatened with extinction. We have pictures of some of the threatened creatures and data on where they are. There was some good news for birds at least though — contrary to popular belief, golf courses are useful habitat for some endangered species.Climate talksUS puts climate debate on hold for five weeks despite plea by Merkel Climate negotiators grow impatient at lack of leadership from America Barcelona diary: Fighting talk, Russian roulette and ...

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