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Tesla claims NY gigafactory produced 4MW of the company's solar glass tiles last week, cracking Elon Musk's slightly delayed milestone of 1000 solar roofs a week.

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Planes will this week cover areas in the southern half of the reef that escaped earlier bleaching but may have undergone high levels of heat stress

The full impact of coral bleaching across the Great Barrier Reef will become clearer this week as aerial surveys of hundreds of reefs are completed in the bottom two thirds of the world’s biggest reef system.

An aerial survey carried out last week over almost 500 individual reefs between the Torres Strait and Cairns revealed some severe bleaching of corals closer to shore, but almost none on outer reefs.

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For dogs, grooming can mean dousing in water, restraint, manipulation of the body, and touching of taboo areas by unfamiliar people. Paul McGreevy, Professor of Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare Science, University of Sydney Melissa Starling, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Sydney Simone Blackman, Lecturer in Law, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Indigenous species do not grow fast enough, so imports will have to be planted in their millions to offset emissions, expert warns

Last century the Forestry Commission sparked anger with a mass planting of conifer trees designed to provide a national reserve of timber because the shortages of the first world war had highlighted a national need.

Now a leading expert is calling for similar action again, arguing that if the UK is serious about offsetting its carbon dioxide emissions it must plant tens of millions of trees from imported species on open land.

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On World Water Day, the UN says conservation is a ‘virtuous circle’ in the fight against global heating

Using water more efficiently in everything from daily life to agriculture and industry would help reduce planet-warming emissions and curb climate change – a potential benefit that has yet to be widely recognised.

In a report issued on World Water Day on Sunday, UN agencies said global warming would “affect the availability, quality and quantity of water for basic human needs”, threatening the right to water and sanitation for “potentially billions of people”.

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Italy on Saturday ordered the closure of all non-essential factories as it struggles to contain the coronavirus outbreak.

The London-based start-up expands its network with a Soyuz launch from Baikonur in Kazakhstan

Series of before and after images spark renewed calls for Victoria to urgently phase out native timber logging

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Sifting through diamond samples, geologists find unexpected evidence of a billion-year-old continent.

Chris Packham says nature can help during self-isolation and considers coronavirus's environmental impact.

Video shared on social media shows clear and calm water in Venice as animals take advantage of the lockdown in Italy to move into usually crowded spaces. Dolphins and wild boar have been spotted as ports and roads have been quiet as the country remains under strict quarantine at least until 3 April

• 'Nature is taking back Venice': wildlife returns to tourist-free city

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Speculators trimmed their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) holdings by nearly 10 million allowances earlier this week amid growing concerns about a coronavirus pandemic reducing compliance demand under the WCI-linked carbon market, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data.

The EU should extend the ETS to its eastern neighbours rather than imposing a carbon border adjustment that risks breaching a longstanding treaty linking energy markets, the head of the region's energy watchdog told Carbon Pulse on Friday.

The second quarterly WCI carbon auction of the year on May 20 will feature 66.2 million current and future vintage permits available for purchase, as the coronavirus pandemic and economic fallout raise concerns that the sale will be undersubscribed for the first time in three years.

EU member states and the UK handed out a further 8.5 million free carbon allowances to industrial emitters over the past two weeks, according to updated data released late Friday by the European Commission.

Leaders and unions concerned about acute labour shortage suggest retraining those put out of work

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Farming leaders have raised concerns about a lack of available labour because of the coronavirus, with one calling for a “land army” to be recruited from people put out of work by the crisis.

Restrictions in place because of the virus are likely to prevent many of the 60,000 seasonal labourers who come to the UK each year to work on farms from travelling, and the supply of domestic workers is also expected to be reduced.

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California Carbon Allowances (CCA) retreated beneath $13.00 on Friday morning as rising concerns about plummeting WCI-capped emissions and higher margin rates forced additional selling.

Greg Clark, the Commons Science Select Committee chair, praises government use of expert advice.

One defendant did not attend hearing into last year’s protests as she was self-isolating

Dozens of Extinction Rebellion protesters failed to attend their court hearings after the campaign group told them to stay away due to the coronavirus crisis.

Forty-nine people were due to appear at City of London magistrates court on Friday charged in connection with a series of environmental demonstrations held in the capital last October.

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