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Sounds from the Great Barrier Reef have got quieter over the past five years.

All England Lawn Tennis Club ditches plastic straws for this year’s championships

Wimbledon would not be the same without a thirst-quenching Pimm’s, but this year visitors to the annual tennis championships will be served the beverage without the customary plastic straw.

The All England Lawn Tennis Club announced on Tuesday that no plastic straws would be used in its bars, cafes and restaurants during this year’s Wimbledon fortnight.

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Opponents of cull say cost of £1,000 per animal killed means it is wasteful as well as cruel

The cost of policing the controversial badger cull in just one of the 21 zones last autumn approached the £1m mark – the equivalent of more than £1,000 for every animal killed there.

Objectors to the cull described the bill for Cheshire as a horrendous waste of public money and called for the policy to be scrapped on economic as well as animal cruelty grounds.

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The promotion of carbon markets by business groups including IETA has been labelled a “dangerous distraction” to climate action by transparency campaigners seeking a more clearly-defined structure for accessing UN climate negotiations.

How have the changing seasons affected the wildlife near you?

What sort of wildlife will we all discover on our doorsteps this month? We’d like to see your photos of the May wildlife near you, whether you’re a novice spotter or have been out and about searching for creatures great and small for years.

Share your photos and videos with us and we’ll feature our favourites on the Guardian site. We also occasionally print readers’ best images in the Guardian newspaper.

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The unsettling future of climate uncertainty

The social impact of an uncertain and unpredictable climate and building cities to cope with flooding.

A US-based emissions reduction project developer has been advancing a large portfolio of developing-world offset projects for the South Korean carbon market, Carbon Pulse has learned.

The fledgling market for Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) is seeing signs of an early supply squeeze despite limited demand for the credits beyond the government.

Environment group Friends of the Earth says big ticket items to tackle climate change and protect Victoria’s environment are the “missing piece of the puzzle” in budget 2018/19—a disappointing one for the environment.

Waste Not drinks join growing market aimed at preventing huge amounts of misshapen food from being needlessly thrown away

‘Wonky’ fruit and vegetables that would have been thrown away are now being used to make a new range of juices, in one of a number of assaults on food waste.

One of the UK’s largest fresh produce growers has teamed up with a Spanish fruit supplier to create a new product, Waste Not, which will stop edible but visually ‘imperfect’ ingredients such as fresh celery, beetroot and oranges from being dug back into the soil, or used for animal feed. The new juices will go on sale in branches of Tesco.

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South Australian energy storage company 1414 degrees launches bid to go public

Rat baits are widely used to keep rodent pests at bay. But many Australian reptiles are resistant to the poison, potentially spreading these deadly compounds up the food chain. Michael Lohr, PhD Student - Wildlife Ecology, Edith Cowan University Robert Davis, Senior Lecturer in Vertebrate Biology, Edith Cowan University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

AEMO cuts estimated output from Broken Hill solar farm by 22%, and other solar farms in Queensland by to 12%, citing change in flows on the grid. The new calculations could affect the economics of many renewable projects and may be contested by developers.

Titchwell Marsh, Norfolk: Isn’t this a kind of cathedral, an endlessly renewed scene of biodiversity and beauty made by sunlight and fashioned from stardust?

It was wonderful as well as instructive to sit with my younger daughter at the edge of the wetland scrape that is the showcase of the Titchwell Marsh RSPB reserve.

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Origin puts pressure on Coalition to lift emissions targets, while CEC says its support for NEG is conditional on higher targets, but laments "hysteria" over the new policy instrument.

BNEF says Turnbull's climate policy built on "hope" that economy could "accidentally" decarbonise. Penny Wong laments a lost decade.

The big opportunity for blockchain in the generation value stream lies in the ability to bring together lots of small amounts of capital.

Coalition's emissions target makes Australia's grid barely cleaner than a coal generator. Happily, the states will clean up, but Snowy Hydro needs to lift its game.

After almost a decade – and $15 million - spent developing its silicon storage technology, energy innovator, 1414 Degrees, is going public.