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Salter’s Gate, Weardale: Having performed her provocative display, the female seems to ignore the suitor with his bandit eye-stripe

The sky above this open hillside, overlooking Tunstall reservoir in the valley below, was filled with skylark song, but lapwings, Vanellus vanellus, commanded attention with reckless display flights and calls reminiscent of rusty hinges. Thirty years ago, when we came here to watch them with our children, they christened them “creaky doors”.

Related: The lapwing's unearthly sounds fill the fields

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Elon Musk says Tesla hopes to announce a battery installation 8 times bigger than the current big battery within a few months, and is working on Powerwall backlog.

Kew Gardens' largest glasshouse - the Temperate House - reopens after an ambitious five-year restoration.

SolarEdge takes major step towards making distributed solar power “ubiquitous,” with the launch of a new grid services product.

Study says 40% of transport could be emissions-free by 2035 and neighbours could trade clean electricity

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A total shift to renewable energy would pay for itself through cost savings within two decades, and ultimately save Australians $20bn a year in combined fuel and power costs, a new report says.

The report, released on Thursday morning, outlines a path to powering homes and businesses from renewable sources by 2030. By 2035, 40% of transport could be emissions free, it says.

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The public consultation period for assessment for ongoing export accreditation has been extended until 23 July 2018. This consultation was originally open from 7 May 2018 until 12 June 2018.

The public consultation period for assessment for ongoing export accreditation will be open from 7 May - 12 June 2018

Southern basin farmers have contributed the most to the Murray-Darling basin plan but taking more water will compound the challenges

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The Murray-Darling basin plan narrative runs on well-worn tracks. Water theft allegations and short-changed rivers in the northern basin. Booming almonds around Mildura. Quick detour to Murrumbidgee river communities who burned the draft plan in 2010 but are now doing fine. And the story ends at the Coorong and at the Murray mouth.

So all angles covered, yes?

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The Temperate House at Kew Gardens, which was built in 1863, is home to some of the world's rarest plants.

Donor nations’ 2020 target of $100bn annual fund for adapting economies falls short by near 50% says Oxfam

Finance for poor countries to help them reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and deal with climate change is lagging behind the promises of rich countries, an Oxfam report finds.

While taxpayer-funded finance has increased, and the private sector has stepped up with some initiatives, the amount raised could still fall short of the goal of providing $100bn a year to the developing world by 2020.

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The Hawaii House and Senate have again passed two carbon offset and sequestration-related bills after a bicameral committee made minor changes to both pieces of legislation in April.

Widespread frost caused damage to fruit and vegetables as temperatures plunged

It has not been a great spring – so far, at least – but temperatures have been more or less normal: unlike those of May 1935. The month in which King George V celebrated his silver jubilee started well, with fine, sunny weather, and highs of 23C.

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The shareholder resolution on climate change at Rio Tinto's AGM is another indication of how much investor culture is tilting towards demanding that companies take a responsible climate stance. Anita Foerster, Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne Jacqueline Peel, Professor of Environmental and Climate Law, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The federal government's new $500 million funding package for the Great Barrier Reef seems predominantly focused on the tactics that are already being tried, without much success. Jon Brodie, Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EU carbon prices continued to slide on Wednesday, dropping below €13 for the first time in a week as weaker power prices weighed despite some improved signs of auction demand.

New global carbon markets and heightened consumer and corporate interest will bolster international demand for land-based offset projects developed in Alberta despite concerns about environmental integrity, Canadian environmental consultants said on Wednesday.

Scientists piece together the skull of an ancient bird, which had a primitive beak lined with teeth.

The ‘river of grass’ wilderness and coastal communities are in peril, with the buffer coastal ecosystems on a ‘death march’ inland

Florida’s mangroves have been forced into a hasty retreat by sea level rise and now face being drowned, imperiling coastal communities and the prized Everglades wetlands, researchers have found.

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More than 260 installations and airlines operating under the EU ETS, or just over 2% of the total covered, were listed as being in non-compliance with the scheme for 2017, data published by the European Commission on Wednesday showed.