Environmental news, opinion and analysis from Guardian US
Environment
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Testing has found positive cases at North Carolina facilities, but officials refuse to release the information
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Plan will be fodder for election-year attacks from Republicans who will frame it as economy-killing and a grab-bag of Democratic social policies
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Report to outline plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 88% of 2010 levels, and includes huge sums for public transport and proposals for green vehicles
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Workers in Appalachia and elsewhere seek assistance as economy shifts to renewable energy and America’s mines continue to shut
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Unsafe boating activity, delays to environmental projects and changes in public policy are putting the gentle giants at risk
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For many Americans across the US, water bills are becoming unaffordable. That poses a threat to health, housing and families
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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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Across the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, scientists are developing alternative sustainable solutions to the golden tide of Sargassum
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When Onon the common cuckoo took off from Mongolia last June no one expected him to make a 26,000km round trip to southern Africa
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Amateur beekeepers and scientists do ‘the whole CSI thing’ to stem the feared onslaught
This land is your land
Investigating the threats facing public lands in the US and Canada - with your help
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Wildlife Services kills thousands of animals at ranchers and farmers’ behest. But it operates with little oversight – and critics describe it as out of control
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Native Americans in New Mexico have held protests to demand that effigies glorifying conquistadors be removed
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Push is inadvertently causing long-term environmental damage to the traditional hunting grounds on Inuit public lands
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Armed militia members were out in force at demonstration when a protester was shot while he and others tried to bring down conquistador statue
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A survey of 11 remote western locations found that, over a year, the fragments had traveled through the atmosphere like rain or water particles
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Reactions to the announcement by eccentric millionaire Forrest Fenn that his hoard had been found range from surprise to delight and dismay
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Campaigners welcomed Wednesday’s ruling as a victory for tribal rights and environmental protection
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The oil industry saw its opening and moved with breathtaking speed to take advantage of this moment
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Plan would help Trump administration advance projects held up over global heating concerns such as the Keystone XL oil pipeline
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Records seen by the Guardian show law enforcement has called demonstrators possible ‘domestic terrorism’ threats
Energy
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Samples from illegal refineries in Niger delta found to be of a higher quality than imported petrol in new analysis
Latest news
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Chain invokes ‘zero-tolerance approach’ to illegally logged timber after ruling that VicForests was not exempt from national environment laws
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Fiona Kotvojs is ‘more conservative’ than Tony Abbott on climate change, one campaigner has warned
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Land groups say plan could lift economic output by $5.7bn and focus on areas hit hardest by coronavirus shutdown
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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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
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Verdict against eight men accused in the murder of Honduran indigenous environmentalist will be handed down on Thursday
The big picture
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The pick of the world’s best flora and fauna photos, including a perky grasshopper and a sleepy turtle
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