environment
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Survey shows 36m trees have died since May, as record low snowpack and warm temperatures leave trees thirsty and prone to beetle infestation
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US Department of the Interior says ‘fragile and unique’ Arctic ecosystem at risk if drilling allowed, possibly by pro-fossil fuels Trump administration
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Estimated 20bn barrels of oil found in Texas’s Permian Basin, three times larger than the Bakken oilfields of North Dakota, could be worth as much as $900bn
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Thousands of dead fish were seen on the surface of the Shinnecock Canal in Southampton, New York, on Monday, after becoming trapped inside overnight
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Officials believe the bunker fish, trapped after Shinnecock canal closed, may have been chased there by predatory fish and died due to lack of dissolved oxygen
energy
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Australia cannot hail the Paris accord as a turning point and simultaneously rejoice in a great long-term economic future for coal
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Letters: A recent UK Energy Research Centre study found that similarly sized renewable energy projects create 10 times more jobs than their fossil fuel counterparts
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Five years after the last rabbit was killed, endangered birds such as the black-browed albatross are growing in numbers
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Marrakech COP22 president urges US president-elect to join battle against global warming for sake of humanity
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At COP22, the African Development Bank’s president, Akinwumi Adesina, tells of strategies to improve energy supplies and fight the impact of climate change
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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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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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Elephants will certainly survive. But it may only be in ‘fortress’ conservation parks. Is there any way to allow elephants to stay wild?
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The new bottom lineThe new bottom lineTrump's influence on the future of clean energy is less clear than you thinkThe president-elect is a political novice whose energy plan doesn’t account for the economic reality of coal and renewable energy
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An apple a dayAn apple a dayCan dry cleaning give you cancer? The hidden hazards of delicatesDespite a 2012 EPA report finding that dry cleaning is a toxic process in the US, many Americans have no idea the way they clean their clothes is carcinogenic
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the big picture
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A pheasant that sports Donald Trump’s hairdo, a line of baboons and a ‘teddy bear’ bee and among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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