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11:23am By Anna Deen
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It’s been a helluva year — so rather than just reflecting on all that went down in 2020, we’re…Should hospitals reuse medical supplies? A new study says yes.
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In 2015, a marine biologist filmed her team removing a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nostril.…Here’s looking at you, 2021
Dec 12, 2020, 9:09 am By Chip Giller
Hey there, 2020 was a year of big change. A pandemic. An impeachment. A racial-justice uprising.…As South Africa clings to coal, a struggle for the right to breathe
Dec 12, 2020, 3:59 am By Chloe Williams
This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the…Yes, there’s still bitter division over climate policy. That’s progress, folks.
Dec 11, 2020, 11:50 am By Eve Driver
Last week, President-elect Joe Biden announced he was looking at Brian Deese, global head of…The Fix guide to holiday giving
Dec 11, 2020, 4:00 am By Brianna Baker
Yes, many of us are hunkering down inside through the winter, celebrating the holidays without our…Psychic numbing: Why rising death tolls no longer shock us
Dec 11, 2020, 3:59 am By Shannon Osaka
Susanne Moser remembers exactly when the global death toll from the coronavirus passed 100,000. It…Can we ‘restore’ the climate? These young activists want us to try.
Dec 11, 2020, 3:58 am By Emily Pontecorvo
Disagreements about how to tackle the climate crisis abound, but in 2020, it seemed much of the…The uproar over Biden’s choice to run the USDA
Dec 11, 2020, 3:57 am By Nathanael Johnson
When news leaked that President-elect Joe Biden was planning to appoint Tom Vilsack as agriculture…Listen: This doctor has the prescription for both COVID and climate
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Note to readers: This week’s question was answered by Grist justice fellow Angely Mercado. Q. Dear…He’s helping Georgia move away from its polluting past
Dec 10, 2020, 3:55 am By Adrienne Day
Nathaniel Smith is passionate about many issues: racial equality; crafting equitable,…
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