environment
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Lyrinda Snyderman was out in the bay with three other kayakers when they saw the humpbacks, which breached the surface over the course of half an hour to dine on fish
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Drier winters, warmer springs and hotter summers make wildfires even wilder. These elite firefighters extinguish small fires before they grow into monsters
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The demand for ‘perfect’ fruit and veg means much is discarded, damaging the climate and leaving people hungry
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Sierra Club report finds science of climate change accepted by leaders of every country recognized by US – including Bashar al-Assad and Kim Jong-un
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US Fish and Wildlife Service to target diseased prairie dogs, food for the ferrets, via specially designed drones that shoot pellets in three directions at once
energy
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The $650m, 96-turnbine Dundonnell project is expected to save 700,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year
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Nick Xenophon says there are ‘legitimate questions’ about the renewable energy mix after South Australian price shocks
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latest news
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The cross-party initiative has the support of Lord Ashdown, Jonathon Porritt and Caroline Criado-Perez, and is looking at fielding candidates in the next general election
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The 66-mile route takes in Dover’s White Cliffs and Dungeness and is latest section of national coastal route to be completed
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Competitions to catch monster sharks have been held on the US Atlantic coast for decades, but now critics are stepping up their fight and calling for a ban
talking points
featured series
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The new bottom lineThe new bottom lineAmerican farmers are struggling to feed the country's appetite for organic foodConsumer appetite for organic foods reached $13.4bn in the US last year – so why is only 1% of the country’s cropland dedicated to organic farming?
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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 Bengal tiger with her cubs, osprey chicks and a forest lit up by thousands of fireflies are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
New York's remodelled Governors Island has built-in climate change defense