Mar 22, 2024 | Salon.com
Whether it’s for work, school or keeping up with friends and family, we all rely on electronic devices for our daily lives. It’s likely you are reading this article from a device that uses a battery or plug. Unfortunately, our phones and laptops contain some toxic elements and when they break or become obsolete, where they end up next can have big impacts on the environment....
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Mar 21, 2024 | Salon.com
The Justice Department sued tech giant Apple on Thursday, kicking off a potential historic antitrust battle. The lawsuit alleges that Apple’s ecosystem of products are designed to limit competition and put consumers at a disadvantage. “Each step in Apple’s course of conduct built and reinforced the moat around its smartphone monopoly,” the authors write....
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Mar 21, 2024 | Salon.com
Given that dogs have a Lyme disease vaccine, it is particularly frustrating that their human companions remain vulnerable to the notorious illness. People with Lyme disease suffer serious symptoms including muscle and joint aches, headaches, fatigue, fevers, chills, swollen glands, stiff neck and poor appetite. Like COVID-19 and other illnesses, Lyme disease can be chronic, meaning some unfortunate souls bitten just once by a deer tick wind up struggling with the ailment for the rest of their lives....
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Mar 21, 2024 | Salon.com
Our oceans are getting hotter, a trend that is alarming experts and human activity is clearly to blame. Sea surface temperatures (SST) are rising at an alarming rate, and scientists have spent months puzzling as to why. They have a good reason to worry: If sea surface temperatures continue rising, humans will endure worsened storms, rising sea levels and major changes to the Earth’s ecology....
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Mar 18, 2024 | Salon.com
The winter of 2023-2024 was unusually sparse in snow, ice and cold, and scientists know the reason why: it was the hottest winter on record. Month-to-month temperatures have been getting broken so consistently over the past few months that the media has started referring to the 2023-2024 winter as the “lost winter.”...
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Mar 18, 2024 | Salon.com
People who follow climate change are often told there is a “tipping point,” a single moment after which it will be too late to reverse the damage caused by our excessive use of fossil fuels. Yet experts say this concept is misleading, with one scientist — James Hansen, who played a key early role in raising climate change awareness — describing the phrase as “greatly overused and misused.”...
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Mar 14, 2024 | Abortion, Salon.com
Almost two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Vice President Kamala Harris — America’s first female Vice President — made history on Thursday by being the first sitting president or vice president to visit an abortion clinic. Harris, as first reported by NBC News, planned on visiting the Planned Parenthood clinic in Minnesota in a way that would not interfere with the providing of medical services....
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Mar 14, 2024 | Salon.com
Chevron CEO Mike Wirth attempted to deliver a speech at a corporate diversity event on Tuesday about gender inclusivity. Before he could finish his remarks, he was publicly confronted by climate change activists from Climate Defiance, who accused him of hypocritically hurting women while accepting an award from a “corporate diversity event.”...
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Mar 13, 2024 | Salon.com
Aimee Code wants you to know something about bed bugs: They should not ruin your impression of other insects.
“Bed bugs are definitely an insect that make people squeamish, and for good reason: they are a parasite that can be picked up unexpectedly and are hard to get rid of,” Code told Salon....
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Mar 11, 2024 | Salon.com
Like a trio of canaries in a coal mine warbling at the top of their lungs, three recent studies warn of various ways that global warming is drastically changing the planet. Each study involves the cryosphere, or those regions on the planet where water freezes into ice or snow. Both the Arctic and the Antarctic are melting — and scientists are recording the consequences....
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