environment
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Visitors to popular parks, including Grand Canyon, Yosemite and Zion, could see fees double or triple to address backlog of maintenance and infrastructure costs
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Scientists were expected to report that climate change is affecting air and water temperatures, precipitation, sea level and fish in New England’s largest estuary
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Researchers find American alligators are preying upon small sharks along Atlantic and Gulf coasts
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Trump administration reversed ban in August, a decision that horrified conservationists and pleased the bottled water industry
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The US interior secretary has identified a total of 10 national monuments to reshape or repurpose in order to allow for logging, mining and grazing
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In leaked memo, Trump interior secretary recommends 10 protected areas be modified to allow for ‘traditional uses’ such as mining, logging and hunting
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‘Nebraska is the last hope to stop the Keystone XL pipeline’
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After Trump’s revival of the Keystone XL pipeline project, a law in South Dakota could ban protests, as many fear a ‘serious threat’ to water
energy
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Analysis of chemicals at US fracking sites suggests pollutants ranging from airborne particulates to heavy metals could affect babies and children
latest news
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Environmental Justice Australia says it will seek injunction to prevent logging of area containing centuries-old trees
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Exclusive: Federal government ignored advice of its own research agency when it bought water rights of a NSW property
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Rescued cubs had spent nine months in care at the National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross, Clackmannanshire
talking points
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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The killing of two activists who successfully campaigned to shut down a mine has shocked environmentalists in Turkey who fear their deaths will embolden others to kill to protect their profits
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When two Dutch journalists travelled to the DRC to report on illegal gold mining in the vast Okapi wildlife reserve, they ended up running for their lives
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Deaths of environmental activists locked in conflict with mining, logging and agricultural companies across three continents has passed 150
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This year, in collaboration with Global Witness, the Guardian aims to record the deaths of all people killed while protecting land or natural resources. At the current rate, about four defenders will die this week somewhere on the planet
the big picture
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Migratory birds, rutting stags and leaping salmon are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
Nicaragua to join Paris climate accord, leaving US and Syria isolated