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A Toxic Tour of Canada's Chemical Valley

The most shocking thing about Sarnia, Ontario’s “Chemical Valley” is that people actually live there. More than 60 oil refineries and petrochemical plants—40 percent of Canada’s total chemical industry—operate within 15 miles of the valley, which includes Aamjiwnaang, a First Nations reserve. Full story

Beijing’s Pollution Problem Is Becoming Hard to Ignore

It’s hard to describe the feeling of looking out the window and not being able to see buildings that you know are there through the smoke, or looking down a subway platform and seeing the other end obscured by a scrim of gray dust. It’s even harder to justify why you choose to li… Full story

I Tried to Get the Guys Behind the Plus Pool Arrested

Here is a little behind the scenes anecdote from the filming of Motherboard's "Plus Pool" documentary. Full story

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Plus Pool

A few dudes in Brooklyn think swimming in New York's rivers is a cool idea, so they're planning to build a plus sign-shaped pool, appropriately named Plus Pool, that will float in the city's surrounding waters. What's nuts is the thing will actually be filled with river water tha… Full story

Kite Weather in Beijing

How can one fight China's pollution propaganda machine? Fly a glowing robo-kite that measures pollution in the sky, duh. Full story