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  Morgan Woroner

  

  Oceans Will Have More Plastic Than Fish By 2050, Study Says

  TIME - By Melissa Chan

  The world’s oceans will be filled with more plastic mass than fish mass by 2050, the World Economic Forum said Tuesday. The use of plastics has increased by 20 times in the past 50 years and is expected to double again in the next 20 years, the international organization said in a new study. The …

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  Morgan Woroner

  

  Oceans to have more plastic than fish by 2050: Report

  Al Jazeera

  Published by the World Economic Forum, new report says that most plastic packaging is used only once then discarded. The world’s oceans may have more plastic debris than fish by the year 2050, according to a report produced by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and published by the World Economic …

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  Morgan Woroner

  

  Disappearance of Bolivia's No. 2 lake a harbinger

  apnewsarchive.com

  UNTAVI, Bolivia (AP) — Overturned fishing skiffs lie abandoned on the shores of what was Bolivia’s second-largest lake. Beetles dine on bird …

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  Morgan Woroner

  

  The 15 most jaw-dropping images of Earth from space in 2015

  Business Insider - Dina Spector

  Astronauts on board the International Space Station beamed back some spectacular views of Earth this year. The Earth Observations team at NASA's Johnson Space Center selected the 15 best photographs, which we've republished here. Check them out, then head over to NASA to view their full image gallery. …

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  Morgan Woroner

  

  North Atlantic storm pushes Arctic temperatures skywards

  DW English

  A massive North Atlantic storm swirling east of Greenland is sucking unseasonal warm air toward the North Pole. Weather analysts forecast extreme …

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  Morgan Woroner

  

  A terrible environmental disaster is unfolding in Los Angeles — and it's practically invisible

  Business Insider - Julia Calderone

  At this very moment, a natural gas well in a quiet, hilly town in northern Los Angeles is spewing hundreds of millions of pounds of methane into the atmosphere. What's worse, workers are not even close to stopping the flow. The leak sprung from a Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) natural gas …