Environment
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Illegal fishing by Chinese-owned trawlers is costing the country millions – and one of the officials trying to stop it has now been missing for months -
The UK needs 1.5bn new trees to tackle the climate crisis – a Northumberland project is showing one way forward -
Transport emissions should be falling with better technology, but policy inertia has left Australian motorists – and the environment – worse off
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The pick of this week’s best flora and fauna photos from around the world, including a tired tiger and sea goldies -
Young XR members travel by canoe into heart of Amazon to form ‘forest pact’ with indigenous groups and land activists -
EU’s lending arm to become first ‘climate bank’ by ending financing of oil, gas and coal projects after 2021
The polluters
Saturday
16 November 2019
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Exclusive: analysis reveals lenders provided $700bn to expand sector since Paris climate pact
Around the world
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America Recycles Day promoted by EPA is brainchild of not-for-profit backed by companies that produce plastic products
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Discover Australia’s threatened plant species, as well as their major threats -
The incoming environment minister has a clear opportunity to tackle this debilitating disease. Wildlife carers and conservationists want it to be a priority
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Special investigation: During the 1990s workers were told not to worry about breathing in the poison – but years later they suffer debilitating illnesses
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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Nation replaces Brazil for first time in annual list of murders compiled by Global Witness -
Environmental campaigners against electric plant and pipeline say Samir Flores Soberanes’s murder is a ‘political crime’ -
Trial is notable for highlighting land and nature defender murders that ordinarily go unpunished -
Verdict against eight men accused in the murder of Honduran indigenous environmentalist will be handed down on Thursday
In pictures
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From mystical woodlands to majestic whales, here are the winners and runners-up of this year’s competition
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Parts of NSW and Queensland woke to catastrophic bushfire danger warnings and towns and cities blanketed in smoke on Tuesday
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Climate Visuals is a project that aims to create a new visual language for climate change that conveys the urgent human stories at the heart of the issue. It has recognised existing and outstanding images with impact for its inaugural photography awards -
Photographer Louise Cooper accompanied a team led by researcher Dr Rachael Gray as they travelled to Kangaroo Island in South Australia to treat sea lions infected with hookworm with an anti-parasitic -
Red squirrels, a laughing kookaburra and a dehydrated koala -
In an area of the Amazon vulnerable to illegal loggers, Cool Earth, a UK-based charity, is working with the Asháninka people to reduce deforestation. Photographer Alicia Canter travelled to Cutivireni in central Peru
Opinion & analysis
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While the ibis may be trailing in bird of the year, it has made it into the top 10 most commonly seen birds in the Aussie backyard bird count -
The lying, the scheming and the intrigue puts storylines on The Bold and the Beautiful to shame -
Key issues
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Malaysia and Indonesia produce more than 85% of the world’s palm oil, which cultivation and production have caused deforestation, water pollution, air pollution, land degradation and human-wildlife conflict. Deforestation has endangered the Borneo elephant, isolating it from large foraging grounds. Now, some plantations are working with WWF-Malaysia to create ecological corridors to enable elephants to travel between forest patches -
Landowners were painted as battling victims of heartless bureaucrats by the Sydney broadcaster. But was he telling the whole story?
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An epidemic of land clearing is sabotaging efforts to address climate change. Farming communities are bitterly divided over the issue – but it also has global consequences -
Little more than two years of land clearing will cancel out the $1.5bn in taxpayer funds that goes towards protecting native habitat -
Hotspots of forest loss due to fires, logging, ranches and soya firms are evident in Africa -
Chance of ending deforestation by 2030 seems lower than when pledge was made five years ago
Video
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Pollution in has reached its worst levels so far this year, at almost 400 times the amount deemed healthy
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New South Wales farmer Jason Maloney shares his experience of the worst drought to hit the region in 100 years
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Firefighters in California have been battling wildfires across the state as winds are expected to pick up again
Don’t frack with us Meet the victorious activist ‘Nanas’ of Lancashire