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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.

The Haughton Solar Farm, located near Townsville in Queensland, has planning approval to extend its capacity up to 500MWac.

The Australian-first Fund will connect corporate Australia to Australian carbon farming projects with environmental, social and/or cultural values, including Indigenous savanna burning projects.

Insect lovers are going to extraordinary lengths to give injured butterflies an extra few weeks of life

New Zealand’s love affair with the monarch butterfly has reached bizarre new heights, with some devotees performing wing transplants on the insects to give them a few extra weeks of life.

Although the butterflies are not classified as threatened or endangered, some lepidopterists have carried out the unusual surgery using techniques picked up from YouTube.

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Labor is poised to finally pass the reforms but farmers say the changes will harm the state’s agricultural sector

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The Queensland government is expected to pass new land-clearing laws on Tuesday amid fierce protests by farmers on the steps of the state parliament.

The laws are an attempt to rein in soaring clearing rates and restore environmental protections that were scrapped in 2013. The Climate Council estimates bushland more than seven times the size of Brisbane – about 1m hectares – was cleared between 2012 and 2016.

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