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Textile waste fills a dump in Bangladesh.
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Bdspn via iStock
Textile waste has become a major source of plastic pollution, with lower-income countries shouldering the brunt of the problem.
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Coconut palms stretch into the distance framed by tropical blue waters.
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PeaceMan via iStock
Coconut palms account for more than one third of forested areas on Fakarava Atoll, French Polynesia, which falls far short of the region’s most heavily impacted atolls.
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Meghan Morrissey uses a micropipette in her lab.
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Matt Perko
Morrissey’s group is working to harness macrophage immune cells for novel cancer therapies.
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A line of clouts stretches from the tropical Pacific to western North America where it becomes a massive storm.
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Stuart Rankin via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)
The Pineapple Express — an atmospheric river originating in the tropical Pacific — walloped western North America in February 2017. These systems are becoming more frequent at higher latitudes, leaving mid latitudes drier.
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Yellow silhouettes of a large female and small male mosquito facing away from each other.
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Matt Perko
If a male mosquito can’t hear a female, it’s as though she doesn’t exist.