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Environment
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An influx of visitors, eager for Instagram fodder, prompted Lake Elsinore’s mayor to shut down access to a flower-covered canyon -
Texas’s eco-tourism industry is seeing a drop in visitors in what should be a blockbuster year – and locals think the push for a border wall is to blame
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Two-thirds of the lower 48 US states will have a heightened risk until May, Noaa forecast says, after severe flooding in the midwest -
Scientists say AP study consistent with peer-reviewed literature and shows clear sign of human-caused climate change -
Some are offering free flights to shuttle stranded residents to and from Fremont, and bringing in supplies -
Hundreds of people have been forced to evacuate as a statewide emergency was declared after rivers overflowed their banks and multiple levees failed
This land is your land
Investigating the threats facing America’s public lands - with your help
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In a rebuke of the Trump administration’s ‘energy-first’ agenda, a judge rules greenhouse gas emissions must be considered -
California town bars access to site as stunning flowers draw at least 50,000 visitors
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The last time Anza-Borrego park experienced a bloom about 200,000 visitors flocked to see the bonanza of spring flowers -
Revealed: Interior department official says he is ‘thrilled’ by Trump’s ‘knack for keeping the attention of the media and public focused somewhere else’ -
The new sites created by a sweeping public lands bill have been years in the making – here’s our guide
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The canyon, which turns 100 this year, sees 6 million annual visitors – and sometimes it can feel like you’re stuck behind all of them
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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
Energy
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Ad campaigns hide investment in a huge expansion of oil and gas extraction, says InfluenceMap
Latest news
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Bill Shorten has given a further indication that Labor will not use the ‘accounting trick’ as part of its emissions policy -
Big retailers must back customers’ wishes and phase out microplastics, campaigners say as petition is launched -
Film forms part of Our Planet Matters, a season that launches on Sunday and will highlight environmental damage
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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Environmental campaigners against electric plant and pipeline say Samir Flores Soberanes’s murder is a ‘political crime’ -
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
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 playful polar bear cub in Berlin, a hopaway wallaby in Texas and a roaming vicuna in Ecuador
Revealed: Trudeau government welcomed oil lobby help for US pipeline push