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Lebanon's Trash Crisis: Powerful Winter Storm Leaves Behind Mounds of Garbage on Beaches
Lebanon's Trash Crisis: Powerful Winter Storm Leaves Behind Mounds of Garbage on Beaches
Jan 17, 2024
At a Glance Few issues have driven a wedge between the Lebanese and their leaders like garbage.The garbage issue has led to numerous protests since 2015. A trash crisis that has been festering in Lebanon since 2015 came crashing into the spotlight once again this week after a powerful winter storm pushedmounds of garbage onto a beach just north of the country's capital, Beirut. The sight of trash on Lebanon's beaches has become a national embarrassment for a country that...
Geoengineering Clouds to Help Climate Could Cause Chaos
Geoengineering Clouds to Help Climate Could Cause Chaos
Jan 17, 2024
Is creating clouds to keep the planet from warming really the best idea? ...
The Green Green State
The Green Green State
Jan 17, 2024
Vermont’s seemingly spacey climate change goals are putting the rest of the country to shame. ...
Vanishing Alaska
Vanishing Alaska
Jan 17, 2024
Rising Arctic temperatures are destroying ancient artifacts once preserved in the frozen ground and taking a toll on native traditions that depend on the sea ice. ...
Killing Clean: The Playbook to Destroy Clean Energy
Killing Clean: The Playbook to Destroy Clean Energy
Jan 17, 2024
With scare studies, policy drafts and political donations, industry groups turned Ohio lawmakers against policies they once overwhelmingly supported. ...
An Immediate Threat
An Immediate Threat
Jan 17, 2024
Naval Station Norfolk — home to America’s Atlantic Fleet — is under threat by rising seas and sinking land, but little is being done to hold back the tides. ...
Cruel and Unusual?
Cruel and Unusual?
Jan 17, 2024
As the climate changes, inmates without air-conditioning have no escape from extreme heat. ...
Colorado Ravaged by Pest
Colorado Ravaged by Pest
Jan 17, 2024
A pest has lived in balance with Colorado's verdant pine forests for millennia. Starting in 2000, something changed. ...
A Vanishing Culture, A Vanishing Land
A Vanishing Culture, A Vanishing Land
Jan 17, 2024
The Gullah and Geechee people have lived along the coast of the southern United States for centuries. Climate change puts their islands and their culture at risk. ...
The Town That Just Doesn’t Mind
The Town That Just Doesn’t Mind
Jan 17, 2024
When a coal plant is a fact of local life, most people seem to stop noticing it. ...
EPA Loosens Policy on 'Major' Polluters
EPA Loosens Policy on 'Major' Polluters
Jan 17, 2024
A view of the smokestack of the 47-year old Cheswick coal-fired power plant October 26, 2017, in Springdale, Pennsylvania. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images) At a Glance The "once in, always in" policy, part ofthe Clean Air Act, is being revoked. The policy, in place since 1995,mandated that a source of pollution deemed "major" would always remain so and be regulated as such.Opponents of the move say it will allow hundreds of facilities to increase dangerous emissions. The U.S. Environmental Agency hasreversed...
Delicate Arch Monument to be Saved by Plastic
Delicate Arch Monument to be Saved by Plastic
Jan 17, 2024
A government plan to preserve the beauty of a national park actually involved plastic wrap. Seriously. ...
Sandwiches can Contribute as Much Carbon Dioxide as Cars
Sandwiches can Contribute as Much Carbon Dioxide as Cars
Jan 17, 2024
It’s time to break-up with bacon! Your breakfast could be killing the planet. ...
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