environment
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Candidates running for Congress and the presidency aren’t offering real solutions, despite growing scientific alarm. That is not acceptable
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Climate change has barely registered as a 2016 campaign issue, but in Florida, the state which usually decides the presidential election, the waters are lapping at the doors of Donald Trump’s real estate empire
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Guardian US survey reveals anger of voters as election year debate fails to deal with concerns over the gathering global disaster
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Authorities used boats and ropes attached to tail to pull the humpback far out into the water before Fourth of July weekend crowds began arriving
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Karenna Gore arrested for trying to block construction activity by lying in a trench dug for the line, which is opposed due to safety and climate concerns
energy
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EU proposal on a free trade deal with the US could curb energy saving measures and a planned switch to clean energy, say MEPs
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Australia’s third-biggest island could combine wind, solar, PV and battery storage to fuel own electricity needs – and set a blueprint for the rest of the country
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latest news
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Climate change and El Niño the culprits, says Norm Duke, an expert in mangrove ecology, after seeing 7,000ha of dead mangroves over 700km
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Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s sewage treatment works was the first of its kind in the world and helped eradicate cholera in London
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Professor Hugh Possingham says authorities must confront prospect that some parts of reef are doomed and focus on what to preserve
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featured series
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The new bottom lineThe new bottom lineA good job if you can get it: America's solar workforce is heating upThe national solar industry is expected to add 30,000 jobs in 2016, a 14.7% jump from last year. Who are the workers building this new market?
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An apple a dayAn apple a day'He was afraid of having a difficult death' - an assisted dying advocate speaks outA nurse and advocate for physician assisted dying explains her experience watching her dying father unable to get the relief he deserved
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the big picture
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A bald eagle, drought-hit alligators, and a feeding leopard are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
US navy researchers conduct tests to grow vegetables on submarines