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A Year After the Toxic Train Derailment, Is East Palestine Safe?
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. If there hadn’t been construction planned for the bridge that crosses over Leslie Run, one of the creeks that runs through the middle of East Palestine, Ohio, Rick Tsai and Randy DeHaven might not have noticed the worst contamination they’d seen…
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Google’s ‘Dynamic World’ Offers a Real-Time Sense of Humanity’s Devastation of Earth
I can remember when Google Earth was merely a tool for me and friends to zoom in on our old streets and homes. I recall squinting at the screen trying to pick out if the satellites managed to pick out my stubby little head poking out the corner of the cul-de-sac where I lived.
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The Climate Talks’ Fridges Have a Dirty Secret
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — A lot of hoopla has been made over the private jets flying in and out of Glasgow during the United Nations climate talks. But they are far from the only flagrant source of emissions at the conference.