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Elon Musk recounts "insane” first quarter for the EV maker, with half of Tesla's global deliveries carried out in the final 10 days of the reporting period.

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China's coal generation costs are similar to Australia - and they are not cheap.

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With Easter and ANZAC Day now over, the federal election will shift up a gear next week as the campaign fast approaches the half-way mark.

A new global study has found bigger waves and more extreme winds have hit the world's oceans over the past 33 years, as the Victorian coastline is set to be battered by a massive swell today.

Court decision blocking fossil fuel activity in swaths of the Arctic complicated administration plans to ramp up fossil fuel extraction

The Trump administration has shelved plans to vastly expand offshore oil and gas drilling in the wake of a recent court decision that blocked fossil fuel activity in swaths of the Arctic.

The administration had opened up almost all US waters to companies seeking to drill oil or gas deposits but this expansion has been halted due to a legal setback, according to David Bernhardt, the interior secretary.

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With unusual inflated winged fruits growing on "sickness country", the tree flummoxed local botanists who had not seen anything like it before. Gregory John Leach, Honorary Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Ceremony in London park marks break in activism after day spent targeting the City

Hundreds of Extinction Rebellion activists have gathered at Hyde Park Corner in London to celebrate a pause in the protests that have gripped London for over a week and are preparing to take the fight back to local communities.

Climate protesters targeted the city’s financial hub on Thursday to highlight the role the sector plays in climate change. The environmental group said it was the last day of action before choosing to stop this stage of its campaign of peaceful mass civil disobedience, following protests in which hundreds of people were arrested and thousands of police officers deployed to sites occupied by the group for more than a week.

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600 scientists call on the EU to make trade with Brazil more sustainable to protect the planet.

Hundreds of scientists and Indigenous leaders have asked the EU to demand tougher imports standards to protect Brazil's rainforests, wetlands and savannahs. Claire F.R. Wordley, Research Associate in Conservation Evidence, University of Cambridge Laura Kehoe, Researcher in Conservation Decision Science and Land Use, University of Oxford Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Lawyer who abandoned a courtroom career to campaign for an international crime of ecocide

What would it take to create a legal duty of care for the Earth? That is the question the Scottish barrister Polly Higgins found herself asking 15 years ago; a question that led her to abandon her courtroom career and embark on a quest to establish an international crime of ecocide. Such a crime would render persons of superior responsibility (such as company chief executives and government ministers) liable to prosecution for causing or contributing to large-scale ecosystem destruction.

Polly, who has died aged 50 of cancer, had begun to see the climate activist movement take up her call in the weeks before her death, with Extinction Rebellion actions demanding that ecocide law be established around the world.

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Three noisy falcon chicks hungry for food reveal themselves in a cathedral spire nest.

After two weeks of mass civil disobedience, we look at what has changed

Organisers of the climate protests that have seen peaceful mass civil disobedience across London over the past two weeks have said the first stage of the “rebellion” is drawing to a close. How much of an impact has it had, and how realistic are its goals?

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After severe weather in 2016 a large penguin colony at the Brunt ice shelf in Antarctica never recovered.

Spain-based utility Iberdrola reported a 22% hike in its remaining ETS-regulated thermal output over Q1 as gas-fired production replaced hydro, the company said in financial results on Thursday.

BBC Springwatch presenter condemns campaigners in row over ban on shooting birds

Chris Packham has said he will not be intimidated by campaigners who left two dead crows hanging outside his home and glued shut his security gate.

The broadcaster told the police about the threats and vandalism, which came after the Wild Justice group he founded with fellow conservationists Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery successfully challenged the “general licence” that allowed the shooting of 16 species of bird, including crows, jays and woodpigeons.

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UK exclusion of international aviation and shipping figures from carbon budgets was highlighted by Greta Thunberg

The UK is breaching the Paris agreement on climate change by excluding international aviation and shipping figures from carbon budgets, according to a leading NGO.

Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg accused the British government this week of “very creative carbon accounting” after the government defended its work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Proposals to replace EU rules ‘downgrade’ green principles, says cross-party committee

Proposals to replace the EU’s strong environmental protections after Brexit “fall woefully short”, according to a highly critical report from a cross-party committee of MPs.

The environment secretary, Michael Gove, said in December that the UK’s environmental standards would be enhanced after Brexit. But the MPs’ report said the proposals “severely downgrade” the environmental principles that underpin current EU rules.

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Carbon prices in South Korea’s emissions trading scheme rose to all-time highs on Thursday as the ongoing supply drought continued to push up prices.

Climate change activists have glued themselves to the London Stock Exchange and trains at Canary Wharf station in a fresh set of protests targeting the capital's financial district. The group plans to bring an end to their climate 'rebellion' on Thursday after more than a week of  demonstrators occupying sites across London 

• Extinction Rebellion activists glue themselves to London Stock Exchange

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Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution by Michiel Roscam Abbing (26 Apr 2019, HB, £20.31, Island Press) illustrates plastic pollution

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