Environment | Wildlife | Climate Change

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  • Nature

  In a World That Still Traps Animals, Can Science Limit Suffering?

  Undark Magazine - Michael Schulson

  People have trapped animals for millennia, seeking fur and food. Is there an empirical way to make the practice more humane? An old coyote, a female, …

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  • Waste Management

  Keurig ‘Recyclable’ K-Cups Not Quite That Recyclable After All

  Gizmodo - Phillip Tracy

  It turns out the millions of machines that require single-use plastic coffee pods aren’t great for the environment, and Keurig is finally getting …

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  • Behavioral Sciences

  Zoos and aquariums shift to a new standard of 'animal welfare' that depends on deeper understanding of animals' lives

  theconversation.com - Michael J. Renner

  In 1980 I visited the zoo in a major U.S. city and found row after row of bare concrete boxes with jailhouse-style bars occupied by animals from …

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  • Plastic

  Why Trying to Clean Up All the Ocean Plastic Is Pointless

  Gizmodo - Molly Taft

  Cleaning up plastic in the ocean might seem indisputably like a good idea. After all, the oceans make up more than 70% of our planet, and we have …

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  A flood of climate aid is coming from Washington. Will those who need it miss out?

  POLITICO - Zack Colman

  Advocates for communities seeking a piece of the hundreds of billions of dollars in new assistance worry that the process may be "too weighty, too heavy and too full of bureaucracy." Washington is providing hundreds of billions of dollars to develop clean energy, eliminate contaminated drinking …

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  • Alcoa

  The Complicated Legacy of Badin, North Carolina

  Undark Magazine - Emily Cataneo

  Their community forged by industry, residents of Badin, North Carolina confront the long shadow of racism and pollution. In the 1950s, Badin, North …