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![A sphere covered in city buildings that looks like the novel coronavirus.]()
![A sphere covered in city buildings that looks like the novel coronavirus.]()
Does city living spread coronavirus? It’s complicated.
"We have to make a distinction between density and overcrowding."
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Clean clothes or clean oceans? Now you don’t have to choose.
The key to lowering your microfiber footprint: wash your clothes on cold.
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![U.K. researcher Andrew Gray geotags snow algae blooms on Anchorage Island, Antarctica.]()
![U.K. researcher Andrew Gray geotags snow algae blooms on Anchorage Island, Antarctica.]()
Antarctica’s ‘green snow’ is sucking carbon out of the air
A new study reveals that the continent's green patches act as a carbon sink.
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Amid a pandemic, transit authorities turn to technology
Cities are eyeing microtransit to create a responsive system. But experts say there are tradeoffs.
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Reflections on Father’s Day a decade after losing my dad
The COVID-19 pandemic is turning many people's parents into full-time patients. I know how that feels.
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Climate change is killing Americans. Health departments aren’t equipped to respond.
How a decade of neglect and politics undermined the CDC’s fight against climate change.
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![A split screen of a police officer from behind and a black man's hand holding an asthma inhaler]()
![A split screen of a police officer from behind and a black man's hand holding an asthma inhaler]()
What does pollution have to do with police violence?
"There’s nothing inherent or genetic about why communities of color are dying at higher rates."
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Lyft drivers have 10 years to swap their gas cars for EVs
Lyft said it would transition to 100% electric vehicles by 2030. But its electrifying news leaves some questions unanswered.
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![Woman cooking on gas stove.]()
![Woman cooking on gas stove.]()
The gas industry is paying Instagram influencers to gush over gas stoves
Not pictured: Toxic fumes.
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This plastics company is trying to stop Black residents from visiting a slave burial site on Juneteenth
A group of Black residents from St. James Parish, Louisiana, got the green light to hold an hour-long Juneteenth prayer on a burial plot, owned by plastics company Formosa.
