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A torn seat from an old car (Getty Images/Nicki1982)

A plant-based polyurethane alternative

Srikanth Pilla, James Sternberg - The Conversation
Student Meeting With School Counselor (Getty Images/monkeybusinessimages)

Fixing the youth mental health crisis

Cameka Hazel
This photo shows a vial of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, Bivalent, at AltaMed Medical clinic in Los Angeles, California, on October 6, 2022. (RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images)

Americans aren't getting COVID boosters

Jenna Clark
This photograph taken on February 3, 2021 shows workers assembling solar panels on the shore of the Tengeh reservoir as part of the constuction of a floating solar power farm in Singapore. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

There's a skills gap for green jobs

Christopher Boone, Karen C. Seto - The Conversation
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Destruction of a cancer cell (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The future is "nanomedicine"

Morteza Mahmoudi - The Conversation
Fly on a big flower (Getty Images / Enrique Díaz / 7cero)

Earth is turning into a planet of flies

Troy Farah
Woman gliding through the web on a skateboard (Getty Images/We Are)

The Internet exists because of the state

Matthew Rozsa
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

California expands health safety net

Bernard J. Wolfson - KFF Health News
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Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and Misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medication abortion (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

What FDA's abortion pill changes mean

Nicole Karlis
The outside of the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center is seen through a gate (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Training to be an abortion doula in N.C.

Claire Donnelly - KFF Health News
A box of Narcan nasal spray (YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

NY docs must give naloxone with opioids

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
People line up before a Covid-19 vaccination drive the Lynchburg fire Department is helping organize at an old TJ Maxx store in Lynchburg, Virginia on March 13, 2021. - The Lynchburg Fire department teamed up with the city government and private industry to help administer and distribute vaccines to the counties around. They also use outreach with community groups to attract county residents from the surrounding areas to the mass vaccination sites. The biggest challenge the department sees moving forward is getting the vaccine to people in the rural areas. Health workers in the United States have administered more than 100 million Covid-19 vaccine doses, an official tracker showed Friday, March 12, around 30 percent of the world's total of shots in arms so far. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Health agencies try to restore trust

Lauren Sausser - KFF Health News
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USA, California, Los Angeles, traffic on the freeway (Getty Images)

The rising onslaught of noise

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
Life reconstruction of the 120-million-year-old bird Cratonavis zhui (Zhao Chuang/Chinese Academy of Sciences)

The dinosaur–bird missing link fossil

Troy Farah
The waiting room at Alamo Womens Reproductive Services is empty as just an hour prior the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade shutting down abortion services at Alamo Womens Reproductive Services on June 24, 2022 in San Antonio, Texas. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

What happens when you restrict abortion

Nicole Karlis
Heatwave hot sun (Getty Images/chuchart duangdaw)

Europe starts 2023 with a heat wave

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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(Getty/Justin Sullivan)

What does the EPA count as 'renewable?'

John McCracken - Grist
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The GOP war on green investing

Blanca Begert - Grist
Tumbleweed rolls across a dried out landscape in central California's Kern County as trucks head south toward the Grapevine to begin the climb over the Tejon Pass leading into Southern California, on February 3, 2014. The United States government announced on February 5 a new system of regional hubs to tackle the effects of climate change as the country's southwest battles a historic drought. In January, California declared a state of emergency due to what could be the worst drought in a century for the state, and which has prompted fears of lost harvests and devastating forest fires. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Is California's drought over?

Jake Bittle - Grist
People sing slogans while gathering on a street in Shanghai on November 27, 2022, where protests against China's zero-Covid policy took place the night before following a deadly fire in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

China and COVID-19: A lesson in extremes

Matthew Rozsa
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Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills (Bryan Bennett/Getty Images)

What happened to Damar Hamlin?

Matthew Rozsa
Coronavirus mutations, concept (Getty images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

How variant XBB.1.5 took over the U.S.

Troy Farah
(Getty/FrankMirbach)

When fishing boats go "dark"

Heather Welch - The Conversation
Wind turbine reflected in solar panels (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

War accelerating clean energy adoption

Rachel Kyte - The Conversation
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