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Environment
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Exposure to harmful PFAS remains almost impossible to escape – particularly for the people of the Cape Fear River basin
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Research puts US ahead of China, Russia, India and Brazil in terms of global damage as climate expert says numbers ‘very stark’
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Electricity demand expected to surpass supply as temperatures hit triple digits, shattering records
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From Friday to Monday, the blaze expanded from 250 acres to roughly 2,340 acres as over 500 firefighters have tried to contain it
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CDC study finds glyphosate, controversial ingredient found in weedkillers including popular Roundup brand, present in samples
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Washburn fire is burning near southern portion of the park, Mariposa Grove, home to over 500 mature giant sequoias
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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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Focus on market has led to climate crises, with spiritual, cultural and emotional benefits of nature ignored
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Court of appeal judgment allows £5bn lawsuit against mining giant BHP by more than 200,000 victims of 2015 Mariana dam disaster
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New UN study says increasing sustainability is vital to livelihoods of billions of people in developed and developing countries
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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Groups representing Unilever and Amazon say long-term targets will boost investment and provide jobs
Latest news
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Byron Fay says he supports government plan if it doesn’t benefit major parties while hindering political newcomers
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After an outcry at last year’s killing of 1,480 white-sided dolphins, campaigners say new government hunt quotas are ‘farcical’
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How the fox arrived on the island south-east of Melbourne remains a mystery, but one theory is that it swam there
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 baby lemurs, a fulmar and a sulphur-crested cockatoo
Most viewed
‘No point in anything else’: Gen Z members flock to climate careers