Apr 22, 2022
Stat: 51% of Americans say the U.S. is doing a very bad or somewhat bad job of addressing climate change.
Story: Amid growing public concern about rising seas, extreme weather, and disappearing biodiversity, we speak with Michael Oppenheimer, the Albert G. Milbank professor of geosciences and international affairs at...
Apr 8, 2022
Stat: 11 million metric tons—the amount of plastic that enters the ocean each year.
Story: We continue our “Ocean, People, Planet” season with a discussion of one of the largest threats facing the ocean: plastic pollution. Winnie Lau, who is the project director of Pew’s preventing ocean plastics project, and...