To make matters worse, plastics take hundreds of years to decompose, leading to long-term environmental and health hazards as they break down into microplastics that contaminate water and food sources. In this graphic, we visualized the top 20 countries thatgenerated the most single-use plastic wa...
Gold Over Time Green Visualizing California’s Drought Conditions (2000–2025) How Much of the World’s Plastic Waste Actually Gets Recycled? Mapped: Water Violations by State Charted: Per-Capita CO2 Emissions by Global Region (1960-2022) Mapped: Global Hydrogen Production by Region ...
By Lauren FrayerLos Angeles Times
At $112.50 per capita, the Ventura County Fire Department costs less to operate than the massive Los Angeles County Department--which protects 2.89 million people in a 2,234-square-mile area--and the smaller Santa Barbara County Fire Department, which serves 137,000 people spread over 1,400 ...