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Plastic fills our dumps, homes and oceans, and takes a huge toll on wildlife. Yet the oil industry plans to increase its production 40 percent over the next decade.

Source: The Plastic-production Problem

Regardless of what really happened, Texas conservatives want to blame renewables for the state’s power fiasco, protect the fossil fuel industry—and open another front in the culture war.

Source: Most of Texas’ energy comes from oil and gas. So why blame wind and solar for its power failures? – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

“Infodemiologists” are intervening in Facebook discussions to stop the spread of misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine.

Source: The quest to rid Facebook of vaccine misinformation – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The virus that causes COVID-19 is likely going to be around for many years. But that might not be as bad as you think, infectious disease experts say.

Source: Think a year of COVID-19 has been tough? Try decades (or longer) – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

A World Health Organization mission to China to investigate the origins of COVID-19 reported earlier this week that it had ruled out the idea that the coronavirus pandemic could have sprung from a lab leak, but taken as a whole, the lab-leak theory remains a serious possibility; the World Health Organization’s investigative team will need to present any new evidence it used to rule out the theory when it releases its mission report.

Source: WHO: COVID-19 didn’t leak from a lab. Also WHO: Maybe it did – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Source: Dictionary Of Irish Biography – Comyn, Michael