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Engineers Can Build a Site to Secure Nuclear Waste for 100,000 Years. Who Will Live Nearby?
The world’s first permanent depository for nuclear fuel waste opens later this year on Olkiluoto, a sparsely populated and lushly forested island in the Baltic Sea three hours north of Helsinki. Onkalo — the name means “cavity” or “cave” in Finnish — is among the most advanced facilities of its kind, designed for an unprecedented…
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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 Mountain of Used Clothes Appeared in Chile’s Desert. Then It Went Up in Flames
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. This story was produced by Grist and co-published with El País. A Spanish-language version can be read here. Reporting was supported by the Joan Konner Program in the Journalism of Ideas. On the morning of June 12, 2022, Ángela Astudillo, then…
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Most People Globally Support ‘Whatever It Takes’ to Limit Climate Change
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. More than 70,000 delegates from around the world are gathering at the U.N. climate talks in Dubai this week to negotiate (ostensibly) how to tackle the climate crisis. Many of the important conversations at COP28 will revolve around “loss and damage,”…