Maddie Stone
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Activists Deliver Giant Trash Monsters To Nestlé Headquarters To Protest Plastic Pollution
Plastic pollution in the oceans is a huge, disgusting problem. Which is why it’s pretty fitting that Greenpeace decided to raise awareness of one company’s contributions with huge, disgusting trash monsters.
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Recycling Is Broken
In Philadelphia, people like to recycle. Together, all 1.6 million of us generate about 400 tons of recyclable material each day. But since last fall, roughly half of the bottles and cans my neighbours and I dutifully place curbside in our blue bins every week haven’t made their way to a sorting facility. They’ve gone…
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Why America’s Northernmost City Is Having A Weird, Hot Winter
Something strange is happening to the northernmost city in the United States. It’s the dead of winter, and temperatures in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow) should be well below zero. Late last week, they soared into the 20s and 30s—practically beach weather for Arctic Alaska.
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Scientists Will Once Again Try To Explore Alien Ecosystem Exposed By Giant Antarctic Iceberg
Last year, a team of scientists embarked on a mission to explore the seafloor exposed when a Delaware-sized iceberg popped off the Antarctic Peninsula in 2017. Frustratingly, their ship had to turn around mid-voyage thanks to impenetrable near-record low Antarctic sea ice levels, another team of scientists will make an attempt.