environment
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Fish and Wildlife Service decides Pacific walrus may be able to adapt to loss of sea ice and is unlikely to be seen as endangered ‘in the foreseeable future’
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A beetle and a fungus are killing off the trees that have become synonymous with the city, making way for trees that give more shade and use less water
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September saw more fires than any month on record, as experts say uptick is due to expansion of agriculture and reduction of oversight and surveillance
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Welsh climber Andrew Foster, 32, was man killed on El Capitan, say authorities, and ‘substantially bigger’ fall has since taken place
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Officials warn that Guajataca Dam, in the island’s north-west, has caused flash floods downstream: ‘This is an extremely dangerous situation’
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Trump administration reversed ban in August, a decision that horrified conservationists and pleased the bottled water industry
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The US interior secretary has identified a total of 10 national monuments to reshape or repurpose in order to allow for logging, mining and grazing
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In leaked memo, Trump interior secretary recommends 10 protected areas be modified to allow for ‘traditional uses’ such as mining, logging and hunting
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Native Americans and environmental advocates get help from outdoor retailers as they battle proposal to change monuments’ boundaries
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‘Nebraska is the last hope to stop the Keystone XL pipeline’
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After Trump’s revival of the Keystone XL pipeline project, a law in South Dakota could ban protests, as many fear a ‘serious threat’ to water
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talking points
This year, in collaboration with Global Witness, the Guardian will attempt to record all of the deaths of people who are killed while defending their land, forests, rivers or wildlife
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When two Dutch journalists travelled to the DRC to report on illegal gold mining in the vast Okapi wildlife reserve, they ended up running for their lives
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Nasako Besingi has been jailed after opposing a US-funded palm-oil plantation and supporters say this is linked to Cameroon’s ‘anglophone crisis’
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This year, in collaboration with Global Witness, the Guardian aims to record the deaths of all people killed while protecting land or natural resources. At the current rate, about four defenders will die this week somewhere on the planet
the big picture
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Bearded tits in Norfolk, rutting deer in Dublin, and a hungry polar bear in Alaska are among our pick of images from the natural world
Nestlé pays $200 a year to bottle water near Flint – where water is undrinkable