Environment
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Officials are still investigating how man and woman fell to their deaths from cliff famed for its views over park
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US Geological Service included volcanos from Hawaii to California on danger list, its first updated threat assessments since 2005
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East Island has vanished after coming into contact with Hurricane Walaka, an intense storm that hit Hawaii earlier this month -
Aurelia Skipwith, who worked as a lawyer and in research at Monsanto, will be nominated to run the Fish and Wildlife Service -
President will sign memo directing agencies to review standards that conservatives argue are keeping water from farmers -
Research forecasts Iowa corn yields could drop in half within the next half-century thanks to extreme weather – yet it’s not part of the political conversation
This Land is Your Land
Investigating the threats facing America’s public lands - with your help
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In a confidential document obtained by the Guardian, officials say releasing records could have a ‘chilling effect’ on their deliberations -
Opponents of the 160-mile Bayou Bridge pipeline, which will cross Native American land and 700 bodies of water, have chained themselves to machinery
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Vinod Khosla bought $32.5m property south of San Francisco and cut off public access to popular surf spot -
Park lands have warmed twice as fast as the rest of the country -
Ruling cancels indefinitely a controversial sport hunt of grizzlies in Wyoming and Idaho
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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 -
Pipeline plan clears last major regulatory hurdle after vote in Nebraska, but legal challenges and protest likely to follow -
Nebraska regulators will decide Monday on the last major regulatory hurdle facing the project. Here’s what you need to know
Energy
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Stricken by Deepwater Horizon for years, the company is benefiting, like its competitors, from crude’s rapid rise
Latest news
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As air pollution fears rise, Cheltenham ‘put people before traffic’ and banned cars from part of its centre. But not everyone is happy -
$5bn drought future fund will be financed in part by $3.9bn from an infrastructure fund previously listed for the NDIS -
Exclusive: Simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more, but ‘a smog of complacency pervades the planet’, says Dr Tedros Adhanom
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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Body of Julián Carrillo found with multiple bullet wounds in Chihuahua state on 24 October -
Invaders continue to seize land within the Chaparrí ecological reserve, one of Peru’s most biodiverse forests -
On a planet of more than seven billion, we meet a few of the strong minority risking their lives to protect their land from polluters, poachers and big business -
Nearly two years after the signing of a historic peace agreement, violence in the country continues
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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A 1,000-metre spider web and a hellbender devouring a snake are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
'A prisoner of environment': is it time to leave the American west?