Maddie Stone
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Staggering Quantities of Valuable Metals Are Winding Up in the Garbage Bin
To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals. Mining those metals from the Earth creates damage and pollution that threaten ecosystems and communities. But there’s another potential source of the copper, nickel, aluminum, and rare-earth…
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A Recycling Renegade Is Out Of Prison And Ready To Tackle The Electric Vehicle Battery Crisis
In a warehouse in Chatsworth, California, rows upon rows of giant wooden crates are stacked forty feet high, in a scene somewhat reminiscent of the secret U.S. military installation shown at the end of Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Instead of Biblical artifacts, though, these boxes contain a more modern form of treasure:…
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If You Care About Earth, You Should Watch The Expanse
After a close brush with death before Amazon swooped in to save it, The Expanse is officially back for a fourth season in December. Which means that if you aren’t already obsessed with the space opera that blends interplanetary politicking and battles with alien monsters, you have a few months to catch up. But it…
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The World’s Second-Largest Rainforest Is Losing The Carbon It’s Held For A Thousand Years
The Congo Basin is the second-largest rainforest on Earth, and like most tropical forests, it’s getting chewed up by humans. That’s a problem for the climate, and not just because trees are a natural sponge helping to mop up humanity’s ever-rising carbon emissions. New research suggests that as trees are replaced with fields for agriculture,…