environment
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Don Benton: the Trump 'shadow' adviser taking over the US draft systemFormer lawmaker, a member of the president’s ‘shadow cabinet’ spread across the government, was reassigned from the EPA after reportedly talking too much
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President Trump, it's time we left coal behindCoal isn’t the future of the American economy – it’s renewable energy. The sooner Donald Trump realizes that, the better -
The California drought is officially over, but next could be 'around the corner'Governor announces end to the historic drought, yet water conservation is far from finished as state tries to build climate change resilience
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Coalition of 17 states challenges Trump over climate change policyA coalition led by New York state insists the Trump administration has a legal obligation to regulate the emission of carbon pollution: ‘The law is clear’
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Environmentalists sue EPA for reversing Obama-era move to ban pesticideThe EPA chief, Scott Pruitt, has ignored the scientific recommendation of his own agency to allow continued use of chlorpyrifos, despite its links to brain damage
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How Keystone XL, the pipeline rejected by Obama, went ahead under TrumpThe expansion, which was originally proposed in 2008 and faced strong protest from environmental advocates, secures permit to start building from Trump
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Keystone XL: Trump issues permit to begin construction of pipelinePresident ushers in ‘new era of American energy policy’ Friday as environmental activists denounce revived oil pipeline as a ‘disaster for the planet’
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Rex Tillerson won't work on Keystone pipeline issues due to ExxonMobil linksGreenpeace argued that ExxonMobil, where secretary of state was CEO, would ‘directly and predictably’ benefit from approval of multibillion-dollar pipeline
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The Keystone pipeline will create just 35 permanent jobs. Don't believe the liesWe cannot pollute our way to prosperity. If President Trump doesn’t own up to that, he will face a backlash
energy
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Toshiba's US nuclear problems provide cautionary tale for UKExperts say construction delays and cost problems at two plants are due to lack of experience and absence of supply chains
latest news
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Spotted: baby giraffe Narus has first public outing at Chester zooBorn to his mother Orla a week ago as part of a captive-breeding programme, Narus is an endangered Rothschild’s giraffe
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Quarantine alert might have prevented white spot disease outbreak, review findsFederal authorities investigating prawn imports did not tell Biosecurity Queensland about breaches
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Spiritual festival on India's Yamuna river caused £5m damageReport says it will take 10 years to fix problems caused by the event, which ‘completely destroyed’ the riverbed
elephant conservation
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‘I liked elephant heart. It was soft and very tasty’For 40 years I hunted elephants and other big game in the forests of Rwanda. This is how I became an ex-poacher
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Secret footage obtained of the wild elephants sold into captivity in Chinese zoosAnimal welfare advocates have filmed some of the wild elephants captured in Zimbabwe last year and shipped to China
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Good news for elephants: China's legal ivory trade is 'dying' as prices fallElephant conservationists hopeful amid government clampdown on ivory sellers, but experts remain wary of poaching
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Did George Orwell shoot an elephant? His 1936 'confession' – and what it might meanGeorge Orwell wrote a shocking account of a colonial policeman who kills an elephant and is filled with self-loathing. But was this fiction – or a confession? An Orwell expert introduces the original story
featured series
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The new bottom lineThe new bottom linePresident Trump, it's time we left coal behindCoal isn’t the future of the American economy – it’s renewable energy. The sooner Donald Trump realizes that, the better
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An apple a dayAn apple a dayMorning Routines – the making of long-distance runner Scott Jurek – videoWhat 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
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the big picture
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The week in wildlife – in picturesDucks, red deer, cherry blossoms and leopards in the hill forests of Myanmar are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
Scott Pruitt hails era of environmental deregulation in speech at coal mine