pollution

Tech

It’s Not Just the Oceans: Our Air Is Filled With Microplastics, Too

01.22.20

By Becky Ferreira
Coca-Cola Refuses to Give up Plastic Bottles Saying Customers Still Want Them

01.22.20

By Shamani Joshi
Pulse

Delta Dumped Jet Fuel on a Bunch of Elementary School Kids. What. The. Hell.

01.15.20

By Tim Marcin
Environment

‘Sentenced to Death’: What It’s Like Living in a Cancer-Plagued Oil Town

01.02.20

By Trevor Bach
New Research Links Air Pollution to an Increased Risk of Depression and Suicide

12.19.19

By Gavin Butler
Pulse

Arsenic Blankets This Tiny Montana Town. Its Residents Are Asking the Supreme Court to Let Them Clean It Up.

12.18.19

By Alex Lubben
Indonesian Rivers Are Flooded With Diapers Because of a Popular Myth

12.10.19

By Elisabeth Glory Victory
Tech

Canada Is Underestimating How Risky Pollution Is to Endangered Animals, Study Says

11.27.19

By Mirjam Guesgen
Pulse

This Supreme Court Case Could Blow a Huge Hole in the Clean Water Act

11.24.19

By Alex Lubben
Photos of the People Who Live and Work at Some of Indonesia’s Biggest Landfills

11.18.19

By Edoardo Liotta
Pulse

The Trump Administration Tried Out a Weird Metaphor About Spiking the Punch to Limit the Clean Water Act

11.07.19

By Alex Lubben
Over 99,000 Fines Issued in Delhi for Violating Anti-Pollution Laws

11.06.19

By Shamani Joshi

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Music

Remember When Rick Rubin Held a Surprisingly Star-Studded Fake Funeral Connected to His Pioneering Hip Hop Label?

From Reverend Al Sharpton officiating, to a New Orleans-style procession, to a repast at a bowling alley, no one holds a fake funeral like Rick Rubin.

2 days ago

By Lauren Boisvert
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Music

3 Psych-Rock Albums That Sound Just as Good Today as They Did in Their Prime

These wildly underrated psych-rock albums still hold up decades later.

2 days ago

By Lauren Boisvert
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Life

‘Uniboob’ Is an Actual Medical Condition. Here’s How It Happens.

Doctors call it “bread-loafing.” Make of that what you will.

2 days ago

By Ashley Fike
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Life

The 37% Rule Says This Is How Many People You Should Date Before Choosing One

Get enough experience to know what you actually want

2 days ago

By Ashley Fike
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Life

If You Feel Guilty All the Time, You Probably Have a High IQ. Here’s Why.

Of course Freud is involved.

2 days ago

By Ashley Fike