Articles by Maddie Stone
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![a landscape scene where large, red flames burn behind trees and power lines]()
![a landscape scene where large, red flames burn behind trees and power lines]()
Can burying power lines prevent California’s next big wildfire?
PG&E, one of the country’s largest utilities, wants to put 10,000 miles of lines underground.
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![Collage: a recycling bin overflowing with hard drives]()
![Collage: a recycling bin overflowing with hard drives]()
Can you recycle a hard drive? Google is quietly trying to find out
Rare earth magnet recycling is about so much more than sustainable data centers.
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![Aerial photo of a nickel mine]()
![Aerial photo of a nickel mine]()
The US wants to make EV batteries without these foreign metals. Should it?
Nickel and cobalt have precarious international supply chains, but eliminating them from batteries raises tough questions.
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![Collage: Pieces of a broken smartphone put together with pieces of a new smartphone]()
![Collage: Pieces of a broken smartphone put together with pieces of a new smartphone]()
Electronic waste will go down because of COVID, but for all the wrong reasons
"It is a reduction, though it is not good for the world."
