A man wearing a respiratory protection mask walks toward an office building during the smog after a red alert was issued for heavy air pollution in Beijing's central business district, China, December 21, 2016.Jason Lee

By Anne Harding
August 15, 2017
Reuters

The typical homeowner in 2013 was 55 making $60,000 a year while the median renter was 40 earning $30k

Plastic bottles and other debris gather on the banks of the Anacostia River in Washington DC. Plastic has now outstripped most other man-made materials. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA
 

First global analysis of all mass–produced plastics has found humans have produced 8.3bn tonnes since the 1950s with the majority ending up in landfill or oceans

By Nolan Rappaport
July 15, 2017
The Hill
 

Ricardo Campos, of United We Stand, left, presents a petition asking lawmakers to help release a Nicaraguan asylum seeker who was detained after a routine check-in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in South Florida, at the office of Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Wed., April 19, 2017, in Miami.  At right is Ros-Lehtinen's Chief of Staff Maytee Sanz. Lynne Sladky AP