Plastic pollution covers Accra beach in Ghana, West Africa. Photo credit: Muntaka Chasant, Wikimedia Plastics are ubiquitous in our world, and given that plastic waste can take thousands of years …
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Astronomers may have detected a rare atmospheric phenomenon in the skies of a distant exoplanet. New research analyzed atmospheric signals from a superhot gas giant, WASP-76 b. The researchers suggested …
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A panorama of a storm moving into Phoenix containing a huge amount of dust. The writer of this story was hiking when the storm appeared, and he got caught in …
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It was a key pledge in President Joe Biden’s effort to show renewed international leadership on climate change: The U.S. government, the largest purchaser of goods and services in the …
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By any measure, our half-century effort at recycling has failed. Most of our waste is either landfilled or burned for energy. Very few of the materials we use are ever …