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Environment
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Wu’s approach to transport is informed by her own life story – as the first mother to run the city
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Phoenix is the US’s deadliest city for heat fatalities while its urban sprawl makes it a concrete heat island
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Visitors will be allowed on southern loop under system designed to manage crowds after flooding destroyed bridges and roads
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As state suffered record flooding – and Yellowstone national park closed – his office initially declined to say where he was
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From Chicago to Alabama, people are staying inside, floating in pools – and worrying about the deepening climate emergency
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Appeals says EPA did not adequately consider whether glyphosate causes cancer and threatens endangered species
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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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Proposals – the first in 30 years to tackle catastrophic wildlife loss in Europe – include legally binding targets for land, rivers and sea
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Across the UK and Europe, the ‘parklet’ movement is gaining pace, transforming dead spaces where cars used to be into pockets of green
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A forester, a farmer and a child psychologist have formed a pioneering group to bring even more nature back to their valley
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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Retired engineer’s efforts propel Stithians towards multimillion-pound project to link homes to underground low-carbon system
Latest news
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Brewer says wood- and plant-based design retains same ‘taste and fizziness’ as glass bottles
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Tiny self-propelled robo-fish can swim around, latch on to free-floating microplastics and fix itself if it gets damaged
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Drastic die-back of milk parsley on Norfolk Broads threatens future of swallowtail
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 poisonous frog, an alligator lizard and a walrus called Stan
Most viewed
‘No point in anything else’: Gen Z members flock to climate careers