Content tagged "pollution"
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Posted by Kendra Pierre-Louis S.M., Science Writing, 2016
Topics: climate change, environment, pollution, refugees, Smeltertown, TexasGeographies of Nowhere: Smeltertown and the Rising Wave of Environmental Refugees
We don’t often think of modern American communities as places that disappear. But lead pollution erased the tiny TX community of Smeltertown from the map.
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Posted by Amanda R. Martinez S.M., Science Writing, 2010
Topics: ecosystems, environment, oceans, plastics, pollution, science, trashThe Unfinished Miracle: How Plastics Came to be Lost at Sea
The problem of plastic marine pollution is not due to the nature of the material itself, but rather lies in the ways we have chosen to use it.
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Posted by Lissa Harris S.M., Science Writing, 2008
Topics: climate change, economics, environment, finance, politics, pollution, regulationAir Trade: Promises — and Pitfalls — in the Coming Carbon Market
The market designs that have been proposed, along with reasons why the carbon market is likely to fail to live up to its greatest promise.