Climate Desk
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What if the Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t the ocean’s biggest plastic problem?
The Ocean Cleanup project has an idea where all the plastic is going. Some scientists say it's trash.
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How to build a new park so its neighbors benefit
What does it take for a new park in low-income neighborhoods to avoid becoming a “Trojan horse for gentrification?”
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Amazon employees will walk out over the company’s climate inaction
The planned event will mark the first time in Amazon's 25-year history that workers at its Seattle headquarters have walked off the job.
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2020 Democrats don’t have a serious plan for our biggest pollution source
Building more roads won't help.
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Are we overestimating how much trees will help fight climate change?
Research suggests that forests may store far less carbon than we think.
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Climate gentrification: Coming to a community near you
“It’s hard to predict if you’re safer over here than over there.”
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One very bad habit is fueling the global recycling meltdown
It’s called “wishcycling,” and pretty much all of us do it.
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Can solar panels handle the heat of a warming world?
"Panels are a little like people; they like temperate conditions with light winds and low humidity, and that’s when they function the best.”
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Researchers mapped L.A.’s emissions with incredible detail. Is your city next?
A new project shows the emissions from every road and building in the nearly 5,000 square miles of the Los Angeles metro area.
