environment
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Michigan attorney general filed charges Friday against state employees for alleged involvement in lead contamination of the water supply
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The blaze spanning 42 square miles has destroyed 34 homes, forced the evacuation of 350 properties and put at least 2,000 buildings at risk
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Man who stole nearly 1,000 plants to get at least six monthsState made law to protect the rare, carnivorous plant in 2014
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Conservationists are calling on the US to raise the protection level for leopards, severely curbing hunters’ ability to import body parts as trophies
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One of the largest and oldest black churches in the US warns that black people are disproportionally harmed by global warming and fossil fuel pollution
energy
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Delays, bad manners and petulance: Theresa May’s government is not showing its best side with the nuclear power station hold-up
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The UK government was meant to be celebrating, but delays and second thoughts have left the project stalled
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latest news
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Ministers to conduct fresh review into long-delayed project, with no green light expected until autumn despite EDF’s confirmation
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An Italian physicist, Enrico Fermi, was the first to achieve it but just recently nuclear fission’s popularity has been decreasing
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Green MP Caroline Lucas and host of experts strongly criticise project while pro-nuclear experts welcome move to give project green light
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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 dayHeart disease, depression and blindness – the hazards of deep space travelCan we colonize Mars without killing our space pioneers? We take a look at some of the biggest health hazards reported by astronauts on long space missions
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the big picture
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Stork-billed kingfishers and baby rhinos are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
'Worse than one thousand pukes': fetid corpse flower overwhelms New York