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Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines
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Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

Major ice shelf collapse; Fast food giants tackle PFAS; Ocean garbage.

Host Steve Curwood is joined by EHN'sPeter Dykstra to discuss an ice shelf break-up in typically stable East Antarctica. Then, the two look at the promises of fast-food companies to get PFAS chemicals out of their packaging. Finally, the pair look back in history at how plastic pollution in the Indian Ocean complicated the search for debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

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melting polar ice has warped Earth's crust

How melting polar ice has warped Earth's crust

The melting of Earth's polar ice is incrementally warping the planet's crust both vertically and horizontally, according to a new study in the Geophysical Research Letters journal.

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arctic ireland polar ice
www.theguardian.com

Arctic time capsule from 2018 washes up in Ireland as polar ice melts

When the crew and passengers of the nuclear-powered icebreaker ship 50 Years of Victory reached the north pole in 2018, they placed a time capsule in the ice floe.

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In Alaska, everyone's grappling with climate change
theconversation.com

In Alaska, everyone's grappling with climate change

For everyone from traditional hunters to the military, the National Park Service to the oil industry, climate change is the new reality in Alaska.

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Human-driven climate change is literally making Earth ‘wobble’
motherboard.vice.com

Human-driven climate change is literally making Earth ‘wobble’

As the planet warms, ice loss at the poles—especially in Greenland—is having an effect on polar motion.
Inside Antarctica: the continent whose fate will affect millions
www.ft.com

Inside Antarctica: the continent whose fate will affect millions

As ice patterns shift, the FT joins the scientists battling to find out more
ORIGINAL REPORTING
A woman stands in front of a garbage dump next to an abandoned building holding a poster that says "there is no planet b."

Environmental groups brace for a new era of fear and federal targeting

A copy of Pope Francis' Laudato Si encyclical propped against a wooden pew in a church with the pope's photo on the cover.

Pope Francis made climate change a moral crisis. Following his death, the world needs a new voice

blue and white solar panels on green grass.

Clean energy tech is outpacing politics and reshaping the global power landscape

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A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled

A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled

Road between two sets of nuclear towers.

NRC denies full hearing on Palisades nuclear restart challenge

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Young plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States lose Supreme Court bid but say they'll continue their pursuit of climate justice

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Trump administration’s shutdown of USAID devastates global conservation efforts