physical geography
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Striking NASA Animation Reveals the Dirty Truth About Ocean Plastic
The world dumps some 8 billion kilograms of plastic into the ocean every year — and now, you can check out how all that trash moves around. NASA released an animation showing shifting plastic concentrations in the world’s oceans over an 18-month period, the first research of its kind to map plastics on such a…
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A Quarter of U.S. Roads Could Be Regularly Flooded in 30 Years
The U.S. recently passed a $US1 (A$1.38) trillion bipartisan spending bill aimed at improving and repairing the country’s decaying infrastructure, but a new report on flooding risks resulting from climate change warns even more investment might be needed.
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Farmers on Jet Skis Are Racing to Save Cows Trapped by British Columbia Floods
Farmers in British Columbia are working overtime to save their livestock from devastating floods, including leading cattle through neck-deep water using jet skis and pulling calves onto motorboats. While the images of the cow rescue may seem a little ridiculous, it’s a deadly serious sign of the destruction wrought by serious rain, flooding, and landslides…
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The Fast Fashion Industry Could Drown Itself
Fast fashion is a growing source of carbon emissions. But those emissions could well be its undoing; carbon pollution is worsening climate change, including impacts in the heart of fast fashion garment hubs around the world.