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Chemical companies hid their knowledge of the damage caused by PFAS for decades. With a new class-action lawsuit, Bilott intends to hold them accountable
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Otter would likely not have survived without intervention of goldendoodle Gus, officials say
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Attorney general has launched an inquiry into fossil fuel companies’ role in causing global environmental crisis
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Residents are voicing fury over expansions set to displace thousands while Biden’s administration last year launched an investigation into a Houston project
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Laborers worked for a month disposing of birds killed in a gruesomely inhumane manner. Then they found they too were disposable
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Fast food chain under pressure to join the Fair Food Program as several cases of what has been called modern day slavery on farms show the need for corporations to end these abuses
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In collaboration with Forensic Architecture, this video looks at the Mapuche community’s claim the oil and gas industry has irreversibly damaged their ancestral homeland
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Bank of England governor warns of financial collapse linked to climate emergency
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In his new book, Tony Hall, who has maintained Kew’s world-renowned arboretum for more than 20 years, reveals the stories behind some of the country’s most loved and unusual trees
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Tropics lost 11.1m hectares of tree cover in 2021, including forest critical to limiting global heating and biodiversity loss
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Largest analysis to date on the state of the world’s reptiles warns of threat to ecosystems as more than 1,800 species fight to survive
This land is your land
Investigating the threats facing public lands in the US and Canada - with your help
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The confirmation of Charles F. Sams III marks a symbolic moment for many Indigenous communities
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As wildfires consume the American west, economic uncertainty plagues those tasked with containing them
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Legal setbacks in efforts to block a new lithium mine in Nevada’s Thacker Pass highlight how federal courts routinely fail to protect sacred lands
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Restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante represents victory for advocates after protections were slashed
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Judge blocks Teal Cedar Products’ extension request and says police conduct on Vancouver Island has put court at risk
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Tips for the socially and environmentally responsible traveler
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TC Energy halts project that faced longstanding opposition from climate campaigners
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Allies seek to turn page on strains of Donald Trump era but oil permit revocation and US goods order complicate picture
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Democrats’ climate record is mixed – and it’s largely pressure from Indigenous and environmental groups that’s pushed them to act
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Environmental groups in Canada applaud decision, but country’s western provinces left in disbelief
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Six things the Guardian is doing to confront the climate emergency
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Glasgow 2021 must be the moment when the promise of Paris 2015 becomes real – history will not forgive us otherwise
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We have every tool we need to tackle the climate crisis. Here’s what some key sectors are doing
Energy
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Energy minister Kwasi Kwarteng believed to be open to extension in response to leap in gas prices and energy security concerns
Latest news
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With hunger across Horn of Africa and 600,000 children out of school, ‘desperate’ parents push more girls into early marriage
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Mountain frog lives in Queensland’s Gondwana rainforests which were extensively burned in black summer bushfires
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Staff raise concerns after incoming chief executive Andrew McConville emphasises agricultural outcomes in introductory letter
This year, in collaboration with Global Witness, the Guardian will attempt to record all of the deaths of people who are killed while defending their land, forests, rivers or wildlife
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Fikile Ntshangase was involved in legal dispute over extension of coalmine in KwaZulu-Natal
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Nation replaces Brazil for first time in annual list of murders compiled by Global Witness
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Environmental campaigners against electric plant and pipeline say Samir Flores Soberanes’s murder is a ‘political crime’
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Trial is notable for highlighting land and nature defender murders that ordinarily go unpunished
The big picture
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The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including a giant panda, jumping fish and an osprey egg
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‘No point in anything else’: Gen Z members flock to climate careers