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A plastic waste dump. Mohameed Abdulraheem/shutterstock.com Liberty Vittert, Washington University in St Louis This year, I served on the judging…
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Paris is burning. Yoan Valat/EPA Michael Mehling, University of Strathclyde The gilets jaunes movement, by its own description, is motivated…
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