Articles by Sarah Kaplan
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This Coronavirus Mutation Has Taken Over the World. Scientists Are Trying to Understand Why.
Sarah Kaplan and Joel Achenbach | The Washington Post - Reader Supported News,
6 Jul 2020
29 Jun 2020 – The mutation doesn’t appear to make people sicker, but a growing number of scientists worry that it has made the virus more contagious.
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These Whales Will Be Extinct in 25 Years, Scientists Say — Unless We Act Now to Save Them
Sarah Kaplan – The Washington Post,
23 Apr 2018
20 Apr 2018 — A century ago, humans had slaughtered nearly every right whale in the Atlantic. Now climate change seems to be shifting the animals’ food source. Their habitat has been polluted with sewage and made noisy by construction and seismic tests. Speeding ships and tangles of hard-to-break fishing rope pose deadly threats.
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Sarah Kaplan – The Washington Post,
25 Jan 2016
About a third of all plastics produced escape collection systems, only to wind up in the stomach of some unsuspecting bird. That amounts to about 8 million metric tons a year — or, as Jenna Jambeck of the University of Georgia put it to The Washington Post, “Five bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline in the world.”
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