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… can be confused with glistening white stones or animal bones. Soon, I spotted the telltale plastic bottles, emptied of water or electrolytes, strewn across the desert floor, the human …

… known as the smile: "the distant smile / a cool smile / a hesitant little smile / that plastic smile / a bleak smile / a sour smile / a slow smile / the small smile" and the list goes …

… Georgia; Izzy Ross, regional reporter, Great Lakes … Your trash … Some 33 billion pounds of plastic waste enter the marine environment globally every year, and the problem is expected to worsen as the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries ramp up plastic production. Perhaps the most important step the next president could take to curb plastic pollution is to push Congress to ratify and implement the United Nations' global plastics treaty , which is scheduled to be finalized by the end of this year. The Biden …

… Bangladesh, though he employs a different base material to form his floating beds: empty plastic bottles, which he ties together to form a platform he then covers in water hyacinth. … to use the rotting hyacinth to fertilize other crops — this approach allows him to reuse the plastic bases to grow new gardens for several years. He borrowed 20,000 taka (US$167) to build …

… will convene in South Korea for the fifth and final round of negotiations on a global plastic pollution treaty. Scientists have stated global emissions need to decline by 43% over the …

… Mayol Kuot said his church has been actively providing essential supplies such as shovels, plastic sheets, sandbags and digging bars to fortify the dikes around the villages, particularly …

… (Sept. 23) — not over the oil giant's contribution to climate change, but over its role in the plastic pollution crisis. The attorney general's lawsuit, filed in the San Francisco County … the petrochemical industry's "decades-long deception campaign" over the sustainability of plastics and the feasibility of plastics recycling. Drawing on documents subpoenaed from Exxon …

… of the ways we as a human race abuse Sister Water through overuse; the pollution caused by plastics and chemicals; the heating of the oceans through global warming. I then imagined all the …

… and shipment and heightened production output. The industry is also a  major contributor to plastic pollution and water pollution. Though data is lacking on the exact size of the fashion …

… extinct in the United States. Major international meetings on climate change, biodiversity and plastic pollution will take place later this fall. Next week, Francis will travel to southeast …

… supply were infinite, burning fossil fuels as if they had have no impact on the climate, using plastics that pollute our water and our bodies. We are killing off species of fish, animals and …

… Aug. 1 and on Friday, Aug. 2, they will gather in Newark, New Jersey, to protest Formosa Plastics , a petrochemical company that is working to open a large petrochemical plant in St. … traveled from Louisiana to New York to take part in protests against Citigroup and Formosa Plastics.* "Citi welcomes continued engagement with our stakeholders and we are transparent about …

… A single ChatGPT conversation uses about  50 centiliters of water (the equivalent of one plastic water bottle). Though these figures may seem innocuous, as environmentalists know, "water …

… told her small squirming toddler, "Look, look! Did you know that is Jesus' friend?" Brown plastic chairs had been set up for the residents and an upholstered wooden armchair for the pope …

… A water spigot sticks out of the concrete next to the drying laundry, and the turn of a white plastic knob is all it takes for clear, clean water to rush out. Akhter calls it "a blessing of …

… young people today will not get to see so many things? It is a lack of conscience to use a plastic bottle and then throw it to the sea. This makes the sea unhealthy. We have to be …

… Ada Okoli, another beneficiary and mother of four, was supported with funding to grow her plastic bag business. Okoli has benefited twice from the program; she says her business has now …

… Youth Day Feb. 17–21, 2023. Participants also to reduce the use of polythene, a type of plastic, and not to litter as efforts to protect nature. "Now I don't throw any garbage on the … and we are still planting trees in our various projects. We have taken programs like the plastic ban," Das told EarthBeat. "Laudato Si' opened our eyes. As our work is with all …

… with fair-trade crafts. A Mexican food truck in the parking lot served tacos — and skipped the plastic forks in favor of bamboo utensils. A teen group from Casa San Jose, a Latino community … do something," she says. An artist, Lorenzo-Rea is intentional about her own use of paper and plastic. She said that we don't have to rely on municipal systems for recycling. "You can reuse plastics yourself," she says. At a table near the doors, Roberta Zolkoski greeted visitors, …

… car next to Paul Freid, one of the seven who had walked up the median to be arrested. A thick plastic panel separated us, but we could hear each other. Glancing at each other, we did not need …