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Environment
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Trump restricted states’ power in favor of fossil fuel development but proposed rule would empower local officials to protect water
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While voters have cited environment as a top priority, the issue has become secondary to the homelessness crisis and crime
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Ohio woman, 25, was tossed 10ft in air after getting close to female bison on boardwalk
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Recent revelations that Democratic West Virginian senator quietly made millions from his coal business could come back to haunt him as he eyes a run for re-election
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Experts say cities are failing to grapple with the deadly threat after discovery of bodies in senior housing facility
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Study finds Pacific rattlesnakes, which can’t control their own temperature, prefer places where the climate averages 80F
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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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Though protected in a cool, damp ‘frost pocket’, beaver dams are restricting water flow, threatening Maryland’s deciduous conifers
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One ecologist counted 160 dead wild birds while walking round a Scottish loch, and figures from other countries are just as worrying
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Rising seas choked the flora on the tiny mammals’ island habitat, and in just a few years they were gone
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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This week’s Queensland news in brief: action over forensics lab, discrimination law slammed
Latest news
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Last year the government asked for ‘big ideas’ on access to green space. Now it is refusing to publish the responses
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Toxic particles from tyre wear almost 2,000 times worse than from exhausts as weight of cars increases
Opinion
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 rock goby, a fox-chasing crow and a frolicking Icelandic horse
Most viewed
‘No point in anything else’: Gen Z members flock to climate careers