Sorry, Your Paper Coffee Cup Is a Toxic Nightmare

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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter preferences 09.06.23 Your weekly roundup of the best stories on health care, the climate crisis, genetic engineering, robotics, space, and more. For all our science coverage, visit WIRED Science.   Sorry, Your Paper Coffee Cup Is a Toxic Nightmare POISONED CHALICE | 4-MINUTE READ  Supposedly eco-friendly cups are still coated with a thin layer of plastic, which scientists have discovered can leach chemicals that harm living creatures. By Sabrina Weiss   A Flesh-Eating Bacterium Is Creeping North as Oceans Warm PUBLIC HEALTH | 6-MINUTE READ  The Vibrio vulnificus pathogen thrives in hot coastal waters, and beachgoers can contract it via a small cut or scrape. It can also kill them in two days. By Maryn McKenna   Climate Change Has Finally Come for Burning Man DROWNING MAN | 5-MINUTE READ  Unpredictable weather and delays following Hurricane Hilary turned the festival for ultra-wealthy techno-utopians and hedonists into a literal quagmire. Welcome to the new normal. By Chris Stokel-Walker   A Billion-Dollar Plan to Fix Farm Emissions Might Make Things Worse SEEDS OF DOUBT | 5-MINUTE READ  Agriculture is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions, so the US is getting serious about reform. But some scientists say current efforts are misguided. By Matt Reynolds   What Ever Happened to the Tiny House Movement? DREAM SMALL | 9-MINUTE READ  Tiny houses started as a minimalist revolution. They ended up as an Instagram aesthetic. By Eve Andrews ADVERTISEMENT More from WIRED Science In a Fierce Desert, Microbe 'Crusts' Show How Life Tamed the Land Burying Power Lines Prevents Wildfires. But There's a Cost Ozempic and Wegovy Can Also Protect Your Heart Turtles Carry Signs of Humanity's Nuclear History in Their Shells DART Showed How to Smash an Asteroid. So Where Did the Space Shrapnel Go? Trending on WIRED N00BS | 4-MINUTE READ The Burning Man Fiasco Is the Ultimate Tech Culture Clash By Angela Watercutter Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors—everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded in the Nevada desert. GET WIRED Get WIRED for just $29.99 $5. That includes subscriber-only content like Steven Levy's Plaintext column, plus free stickers! Subscribe now. ADVERTISEMENT Have questions or comments? Reply to this email.   This email was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our email address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or Manage your newsletter subscriptions   Copyright © Condé Nast 2023. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.