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Environment
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Eric Adams remarks come as city briefly ranked world’s worst for air pollution; more firefighters to be mobilised as over 200 blazes are out of control
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Next week the first constitutional climate lawsuit goes to trial amid signs fossil fuel companies are facing accountability tests
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DuPont or 3M scientists discovered PFAS toxicity internally, but did not publish findings or report them to the EPA, study says
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Independent reporting on the fossil fuel industry and the climate crisis
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The term doesn’t mean that much any more, and there are other, more important factors to consider when selecting food
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Twila Cassadore hopes teaching Western Apache traditional foodways can aid mental, emotional and spiritual health
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Canada is on track to experience its most severe wildfire season on record, and it’s part of a trend experts say will intensify
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Ecotricity founder and Just Stop Oil supporter hits back at Tory attacks as Rishi Sunak claims ‘eco-zealots’ steering Keir Starmer
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Exposure to smoke can trigger an array of health problems, experts say, but there are ways residents can stay safe
America's dirty divide
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New developments for cloud computing could threaten civil-war era and post-emancipation historical sites in rural Virginia
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Residents hope traffic, emissions and noise data they are analyzing with the Guardian will help rein in the spread of e-commerce facilities
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Report finds state discriminated against Black residents with ‘consistent pattern of inaction and/or neglect’ over health risks of raw sewage
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There are plans to unite Philadelphia’s divided Chinatown with a highway cap – but a new arena could hurt the neighborhood yet again
Our unequal earth
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Think that eating local will help save the planet? Think again. Most emissions come from food production, not transportation
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A bill passed the state legislature that will require state-funded institutions to provide halal and kosher meals on request
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In Arizona’s Pinal county water cuts have become a reality even before this month’s historic deal by states to use 13% less water from stricken river
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A study is under way in the water-scarce region to see if commodity farmers can use the regenerative technique of cover cropping as a way to adapt to rapidly changing weather conditions
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Populations of bees, spiders, ground beetles and hoverflies have declined twice as fast on land farmed for crops in the past 30 years, despite funding for more sustainable farming methods
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Monitoring stations that already test for pollution could have dual purpose of mapping declines in biodiversity, reveals new study
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From mining to cattle ranching and soya farming, some of the world’s largest companies exploit the region, though many also claim to be giving something back
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Delegates from 180 nations set out pathway to binding global agreement on tackling plastic pollution as soon as 2025
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Concentrations of plastics in round-the-world race through remote ocean environments found to be up to 18 times higher than during previous event in 2017-18
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Multimedia
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World Environment Day is an annual global event to raise awareness, mobilise action and promote environmental sustainability
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This year’s best shots captured the galaxy above dramatic landscapes in Namibia, Chile, Japan, Spain and New Zealand
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The best of this week’s wildlife photographs, including owl chicks, a white moose calf and hungry brown bear cubs
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One year ago, Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian Indigenous expert, and Dom Phillips, a British journalist and longtime Guardian contributor, were killed on the frontline of the battle to protect the planet
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This week New Yorkers celebrated the first Manhattanhenge of 2023. During the biannual celestial event the setting sun lines up between skyscrapers and bathes the city in a golden glow
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Darryl Kelbrick shows Christopher Thomond the painstaking process behind artisan charcoal burning, a practice he has spent the past decade learning in an ancient coppiced woodland where he lives with his partner off-grid
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Brazil’s Javari valley is under threat. Lula’s government must protect it and its people