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At Lehman High School in Kyle, Texas, a poster warns about the dangers of fentanyl. Four students in the Hays Consolidated Independent School District, south of Austin, died from fentanyl overdoses in July and August. (Colleen DeGuzman/KHN)

When fentanyl came to a Texas school

Colleen DeGuzman
(Getty/t-lorien)

Biogas tax credit benefits factory farms

John McCracken - Grist
A small bag of straight Fentanyl on display at the State Crime Lab at the Ohio Attorney General's headquarters of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. (Ty Wright for/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

An epidemic of fentanyl misinformation

Troy Farah
Colorful sunset overlooking the Colorado River deep in the Grand Canyon (Dean Fikar/Getty Images)

US gov forces Colo. River water cutbacks

Jake Bittle - Grist
Diverse group of happy children getting on school bus (Getty Images/FatCamera)

US offers $1B to electrify schoolbuses

Brett Marsh - Grist
A man holding a non-stick pan with a damaged coating (Getty Images/Elena Gurova)

You eat microplastic when Teflon cracks

Matthew Rozsa
A tree stump is engulfed in flames in the Bravo Bravo section of the Bootleg Fire on July 21, 2021 in the Fremont National Forest of Oregon. The Bootleg Fire, which started on July 6th near Beatty, Oregon, has burned over 395,000 acres and is currently 38% contained. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)

Ore. residents agog at wildfire warning

Jake Bittle - Grist
(Getty/Ron_Thomas)

LA's flood risk is higher than we knew

Jessie Blaeser - Grist
Baby was sick as Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in kid hospital (Getty Images/graphixchon)

"Tripledemic" could worsen COVID wave

Troy Farah
Autumn Alarm Clock Daylight Savings, concept (Getty Images/IgorBukhlin)

Let's fall back, and stay back

Erin Keane
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. ( Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images)

Transmission impossible

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
A North Atlantic right whale swims in the waters of Cape Cod Bay April 14, 2019 near Provincetown, Massachusetts. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images)

Whalers filling gaps in climate history

Ayurella Horn-Muller - Grist
The physician shows to patient a model of the liver (Getty Images/Shidlovski)

New drug may help regenerate the liver

Satdarshan (Paul) Singh Monga - The Conversation
DNA molecule (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Aidan Burn
MRI scan machine (Getty Images/PhonlamaiPhoto)

A helium shortage could hurt patients

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Shutterstock/Salon)

A sense of justice is just human nature

Daniel Sznycer - The Conversation
(Getty/Salon)

AI robots use patterns, not grammar

Morten H. Christiansen, Pablo Contreras Kallens
Tabular iceberg floats in a stormy green sea, Southern Ocean, Antarctica (Getty Images/Jeff Miller)

Using the oceans to fight climate change

Sonja Klinsky, Terre Satterfield - The Conversation
The Green Bank Telescope is seen in Green Bank, West Virginia on May 28, 2018. Green Bank is part of the US Radio Quiet Zone, where wireless telecommunications signals are banned to prevent transmissions interfering with a number of radio telescopes in the area. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Macy Huston, Jason Wright
Conceptual illustration of inflammation of the brain caused by a virus (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

A drug to treat COVID brain damage?

Troy Farah
Asteroid Heading to Planet Earth (Getty Images/ronib1979)

Scientists spot "planet killer" asteroid

Matthew Rozsa
Shorthair cat lying on front in bed looking bored (Getty Images/Kilito Chan)

How a cat parasite conquered the world

Troy Farah
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gestures, walking out of the Senate Chamber, celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduct Act at the U.S. Capitol on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Why aren't Dems touting climate bill?

Kate Yoder - Grist
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate John Fetterman reacts to applause from supporters during a joint rally with Democratic candidate for Governor Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro at Norris Park on October 15, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Ableism abounds in Fetterman discourse

Matthew Rozsa
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