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How does plastic waste end up in the ocean?

Many of us have seen litter on the beach. And of course, there are those sad pictures of sea critters tangled up in plastic! Which made us wonder: how does it get there and what will it take to prevent all of this plastic pollution?

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Political Roundtable: Paxson on hospital merger, healthcare, COVID & more

Brown University President Christina Paxson is the guest this week on Political Roundtable. Ian Donnis can be reached at idonnis@ripr.org. Follow him on Twitter @IanDon. Sign up here for his weekly RI politics and media newsletter. The topics include the proposed academic health system between Brown and the state’s two largest hospital groups, Lifespan and […]

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Should we be eating more seafood?

When you think of a plate of food, what’s normally right smack dab in the middle? A big hunk of meat? What if our first instinct was to say fish or shrimp? Would eating more seafood cut down on our greenhouse gas emissions?

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Political Roundtable: RI House Speaker Joe Shekarchi on Omicron, state spending, marijuana and more

RI House Speaker Joe Shekarchi (D-Warwick) is the guest on Political Roundtable this week. The topics include the state’s response to the Omicron surge, the outlook for spending more of Rhode Island’s federal COVID aid, and the potential legalization this year of recreational marijuana. Sheksarchi is serving his first two-year term as speaker after winning […]

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Our 2022 resolutions

As we head into a new year, our Possibly team decided to think about all of our episodes and how they might inspire our resolutions for 2022. Here’s what some of us had to say.

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How did Bhutan become carbon negative?

These days, it’s popular for countries to make pledges about when they’ll be carbon neutral. But there’s one country that’s already there. Actually, it’s carbon negative.

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