Environmental news, opinion and analysis from Guardian US
Environment
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Emails released to Guardian show staff considered questioning 2009 greenhouse gases finding after White House denied administrator’s ‘red team, blue team’ idea -
Rat-related callouts rise as experts say warming temperatures are helping New York’s rats feed and mate longer into the year
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Interior department published draft impact study experts call ‘inadequate’ following 2017 Congress vote to allow drilling
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Aurelia Skipwith, who lacks predecessor’s experience, faces potential conflicts of interest over links to corporations -
David Bernhardt’s new job means top two US environmental agencies will be helmed by people once paid by industry
This Land is Your Land
Investigating the threats facing America’s public lands - with your help
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Visitors face ‘disruption and disappointment’ as states scramble to keep key sites open -
Conservation group says it will keep the parks ‘as accessible as possible’ as thousands prepare to go on winter holidays
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A bucolic community was reduced to ash by a new kind of wildfire – the deadliest in California’s history. Survivors recall that horrible day
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Hopes were high for the interior secretary’s tenure. But profiteers and climate deniers quickly changed that -
More than 200 species make their homes at America’s most diverse sanctuary, but construction through the reserve could begin in February
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Wisdom, a 68-year-old Laysan albatross, has laid another egg with her longtime lover at the Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge
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Latest legal skirmish in a long battle between activists and the company building the pipeline, which is also behind Keystone XL -
District court judge Brian Morris rules Trump administration did not consider environmental consequences before pushing ahead -
Documents suggest an aggressive response to possible protests against the oil pipeline amid fears of another Standing Rock -
Martin Lukacs: Canadian government viewed Trump’s election as “positive news” for Keystone XL and energy industry
Energy
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The major international agencies should devise a progressive tax regime that penalises the biggest carbon emitters and offsets costs for the poorest
Latest news
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Authorities in Indian capital rate conditions as ‘severe to emergency’ -
Many towns claiming to be the birthplace of Santa Claus have seen unseasonal temperatures -
Releasing wild animals could counter interbreeding with domestic cats, experts say
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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Trial is notable for highlighting land and nature defender murders that ordinarily go unpunished -
Verdict against eight men accused in the murder of Honduran indigenous environmentalist will be handed down on Thursday -
More than half of countries use censorship, harassment or violence to repress public debate, warns a report -
High court orders government to get prior community consent before granting mining rights in Pondoland
Featured series
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It’s one of the only incubators focused on solar companies – but Powerhouse is part of a larger movement to nurture new companies in the low-carbon future -
What ingredients are required to make an ultramarathon runner? In Boulder, Colorado, Scott Jurek has concocted quite the recipe that has kept him going the distance for the past two decades -
The big picture
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Bounding blackbucks, a hungry baby bear, an albino orangutan and more
Back to the land: are young farmers the new starving artists?