environment
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Army Corps of Engineers will not grant the permit for the Dakota Access pipeline to drill under the Missouri river, handing a major win to environmental activists
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A technology to capture carbon dioxide from fossil fuel power plants has struggled to become affordable
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Officials say they will move from north of Backwater Bridge if Dakota Access pipeline protesters stay south and go there only if meeting is planned
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A Republican-led panel promoted a misleading tabloid story alleging earth may not be warming, relying on data that leaves out important points of context
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Transition team says that the president-elect’s endorsement of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline ‘has nothing to do with his personal investments’
energy
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Anti-fossil fuel campaigners rally against the government’s proposal to lend $1bn to Adani to build a rail line from the planned Carmichael coalmine to the sea
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Climate policy review will look at possible changes to safeguard mechanism, which could convert to baseline and credit scheme
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Former prime minister’s policy reportedly to be dumped to increase Landcare funding as part of backpacker tax deal with Greens
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Exclusive: In less than four years the country has ‘spent’ almost 20% of its greenhouse gas allowance to 2050, analysis shows
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Electric-car evangelist is the target of concerted negative online campaign linked to influential rightwing network
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elephant conservation
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The survival of elephants depends on what humans do now. Join us on Tuesday 22 November from 1-2.30pm to discuss how to save this threatened species
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Ending global legal markets is a great plan A, but that alone won’t stop elephant poaching or stem the illegal consumption of ivory
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An investigation reveals the social media site is acting as a shopfront for a multimillion dollar trade in animal parts, centred in a small village outside Hanoi
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After years of battling psychological demons, Jake Dorothy took the radical decision to go and work in an elephant sanctuary
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The new bottom lineThe new bottom lineTrump supports 'clean coal' – but does it really have a future?A technology to capture carbon dioxide from fossil fuel power plants has struggled to become affordable
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An apple a dayAn apple a dayHow lobbyists made breakfast 'the most important meal of the day'We’ve tied all sorts of ills to a failure to sit down to a hearty breakfast. But research and history show that skipping our granola bowl does not, in fact, harm our health
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the big picture
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A baby slow loris, a ‘walking shark’ and caribou in Alaska are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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The victory at Standing Rock could mark a turning point