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In a trash-filled pandemic, low-waste businesses are taking off

Despite early fears that reusable containers could be a vector for disease, public concern over the environmental impacts of our trash hasn’t gone away.

Maddie Stone Technology

The next big climate PR campaign: abolish the filibuster

Climate groups tell Senate Democrats to abolish the filibuster to save the planet.

Zoya Teirstein Politics

Hurricane Irma strikes the coast of Florida

Climate change will destroy communities. Let’s help them move now.

Planned relocation will be expensive, but rebuilding in a flood or fire zone is even more so.

Shanelle Loren Fix

The unfinished business of Flint’s water crisis

Criminal charges and a class-action settlement may seem like the last chapter in Flint’s story, but many of the most important reforms at the root of the city’s water crisis remain undone.

Anna Clark, ProPublica Equity

Report points to a new culprit behind the Great Lakes’ big, green poop problem

There's something shellfishy about the algal blooms.

Nathanael Johnson Science

Chuck Schumer wants Biden to declare a ‘climate emergency.’ What does that mean?

38 countries have already made some kind of emergency declaration on climate change.

Shannon Osaka Science

a picture of downed houses in Louisiana after Hurricane Laura

This one number could alter how the US handles climate change

Biden directed his agencies to recalculate the social cost of carbon, the amount it really costs to emit CO2.

Emily Pontecorvo Science

Electric car batteries with 5-minute charging times produced

first factory production means recharging could soon be as fast as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles.

Damian Carrington, The Guardian Science

Fireworks above the White House on Joe Biden's Inauguration Day.

Here’s to a better 2021 — and an even better 2200

We’re inaugurating something, too.

Chip Giller Fix

‘No more broken treaties’: Indigenous leaders urge Biden to shut down Dakota Access pipeline

Tribes and environmentalists hail decision to cancel Keystone XL pipeline but call on president to go further.

Nina Lakhani, The Guardian Science

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