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Topic: Environment (page 6)

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Coal plant closure win for public health

Katie Myers - Grist
Himalayas, Mt. Everest, Khumbu Valley, Nepal (Getty Images/John Harper)

Himalayas are much older than we thought

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Maxar satellite imagery showing total destruction of the Lahaina square and outlets after the Lahaina Wildfire, with one building still actively burning. (Satellite image (c) 2023 Maxar Technologies / Getty Images)

Maui wildfires strain health care system

Elizabeth Hlavinka
In this image obtained from the County of Maui, a wildfire burns on the island of Maui near an intersection at Hokiokio Place and Lahaina Bypass in Lahaina, Hawaii, August 9, 2023. (Photo courtesy of County of Maui / Zeke Kalua)

Hawaiian fires leave at least six dead

Rae Hodge
Common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) in flight (Getty Images/imageBROKER/Dieter Mahlke)

Solar farms drive away bats

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Plastic bottle being put in recycling bin (Getty Images/Anchiy)

Do you have "recycling bias?"

Kate Yoder - Grist
Carrizo Plain National Monument (Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management)

Feds shutter some California oil wells

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) on human skin (Getty Images/epantha)

A mysterious tick-related meat allergy

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A tubular hydrothermal vent that releases hot water, known as a "black smoker", in the Pacific Ocean (Getty Images/Ralph White)

Deep sea creatures impacted by mining

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Flat lay view of couple eating delicious takeaway fast food meal (Getty Images/Oscar Wong)

NYC bans some to-go plastic utensils

Michael La Corte
A view of decaying FSO Safer oil tanker anchored 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of the port of Hudaydah, Yemen on July 15, 2023. The tanker has not undergone maintenance since 2015 and more than 1 million barrels of crude oil have been sitting in the decaying vessel in the Red Sea. (Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Disaster threatening the Red Sea

Saqib Rahim - Grist
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More sustainable waste management

Michaela Barnett, Leidy Klotz, Patrick I. Hancock, Shahzeen Attari - The Conversation
A Carniolan honey bee (Apis mellifera carnica) collecting nectar from a blooming blossoms of an azaleas (Rhododendron) bush. (Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Can we protect bees from pesticides?

Matthew Rozsa
A field of stag-horn coral bleached white on the Great Barrier Reef (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

Record heat is bleaching coral

Ian Enochs - The Conversation
Caution tape describing lead-based paint hazard. (DarrenTownsend via Getty Images) (DarrenTownsend via Getty Images)

EPA plans to remove lead from buildings

Kate Yoder - Grist
Ohio EPA and EPA contractors collect soil and air samples from the derailment site on March 9, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio. Cleanup efforts continue after a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed causing an environmental disaster. (Michael Swensen/Getty Images)

Railroad towns after East Palestine

John McCracken - Grist
Mud is seen on land that was under the Salton Sea a few years ago on January 1, 2019 near Calipatria, California, United States. (David McNew/Getty Images for Lumix)

Scientists warned of Salton Sea disaster

Fletcher Reveley - Undark
A cemetery stands in stark contrast to the chemical plants that surround it October 15, 2013. 'Cancer Alley' is one of the most polluted areas of the United States and lies along the once pristine Mississippi River that stretches some 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where a dense concentration of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and other chemical industries reside alongside suburban homes. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

EPA won't clean up "Cancer Alley"

Lylla Younes - Grist
Nuggets made from lab-grown chicken meat are displayed during a media presentation in Singapore, the first country to allow the sale of meat created without slaughtering any animals, on December 22, 2020. (NICHOLAS YEO/AFP via Getty Images)

The potential impact of lab-grown meat

Max Graham - Grist
Plastic waste (Getty Images/Anna Efetova)

How to build a zero-waste economy

Joseph Winters - Grist
Views of waterway surrounded by reeds, from Norfolk Coast path National Trail near Burnham Overy Staithe, East Anglia, England, UK. (Getty Images/Andrew Michael/Universal Images Group)

In praise of flat places

Noreen Masud
Visitors to Louisville's annual Arcade Expo in 2023 were invited to play this four-flipper vintage pinball machine produced by Atari. (Photo by Rae Hodge)

Pinball vs. Big Tech's obsolesence love

Rae Hodge
Big fresh carp (Voren1 via Getty Images) (Voren1 via Getty Images)

A $1.2 billion fish barricade

Tom Johnson - Undark
People wearing masks walk along the Hudson River as smoke shrouds the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center as the sun rises in New York City on June 8, 2023. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Failure in New York's air quality crisis

Lylla Younes - Grist
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