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After years of concern over so-called “fluoro” waxes, the Milan Cortina Games will be the first Olympics without them.
A new study says the practice could slash landfill emissions by as much as 84 percent.
That's because chemicals banned under the 1987 Montreal Protocol are also potent greenhouse gases.
"It does continuously feel like that you are trying to prove that you are worthy of life."
Ecuador’s Socio Bosque project has been key to safeguarding the rainforest. Now, the country’s state-owned oil company is exploiting its many loopholes.
As the planet warms, laborers need special clothes to cope. But they also need government protections.
As the United States begins to crack down on PFAS contamination, Indigenous communities are getting left behind.
Restaurants in Petaluma are collaborating on a novel experiment to reduce plastic waste.
Although the rule will slash ethylene oxide emissions by some 90 percent, "there's still a lot more to be done."
