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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and dairy cows (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Fear of Trump mangling bird flu response

Nicole Karlis
A microbiologist tests poultry samples collected from a farm located in a control area for the presence of avian influenza, or bird flu, at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on March 24, 2022 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Mysterious bird flu cases worry experts

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Farmer taking a raw milk sample during Dairy Processing at Brooms Bloom. (Edwin Remsberg/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Bird flu found in CA raw milk

Nicole Karlis
Lloyd Mills spent more than eight months of this year living in a small room at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. (Sam Whitehead/KFF Health News)

Georgians still being institutionalized

Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
Climate protestors in kayaks continue their attempt to block access to Newcastle coal port during the People's Blockade on November 24, 2024 in Newcastle, Australia. (Roni Bintang/Getty Images)

170 arrested for blocking coal port

Matthew Rozsa
Former Republican presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks ahead of a live interview with US commentator Tucker Carlson and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, during the finale of the Tucker Carlson Live Tour at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, on October 31, 2024. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

RFK Jr. will erode children's health

Nicole Karlis
Hope and Porsha Ngumezi pose together in a family photo. (Photo by Danielle Villasana/ProPublica)

Third woman dies from Texas abortion ban

Lizzie Presser, Kavitha Surana - ProPublica
Heavy rains from Hurricane Helene caused record flooding and damage on September 28, 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)

North Carolina still reeling from Helene

Katie Myers - Grist
Woman Holding Birth Control Pills (Getty Images/Laura Olivas)

TikTok promotes birth control misinfo

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Solvent extractions of the Ryugu samples on a clean bench (ISO6, Class 100) inside a clean room (ISO5, Class 1000) performed by Hiroshi Naraoka at Kyushu University in Japan. (JAXA/NASA)

Asteroid bacteria not aliens after all

Matthew Rozsa
The lidar-equipped helicopter used by GEO1 to map Colombia's Ciudad Perdida (Courtesy of NV5)

Lasers in the sky are rewriting history

Matthew Rozsa
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Psychedelics garner right-wing support

Elizabeth Hlavinka
White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha gestures as he speaks at a daily press conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Pandemic lessons for Biden’s COVID czar

Sara Talpos - Undark
Nuraghe of Santa Barbara in Sardinia (Photo by Bibi Pinna)

Sardinia fights for the climate future

Jeff Biggers
A duckling is vaccinated with Volvac vaccine against Influenza in a breeding in Renung, southwestern France, on July 1, 2024. (GAIZKA IROZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Europe to tighten bird flu surveillance

Nicole Karlis
The Andromeda galaxy and an anatomy engraving (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Wanna escape Earth? Too bad space sucks

Levi Stallings
Pouring a glass of water from a kitchen faucet. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

More people drinking "forever chemicals"

Matthew Rozsa
Pharmacist discussing medication at pharmacy counter (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

Democrats can still lower drug prices

Howard Dean
Ozempic is medicine for adults with type 2 diabetes that along with diet and exercise may improve blood sugar. (Steve Christo - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Can Ozempic help us fight addiction?

Zoe Adams
14-year-old Nannalin "Fleur" Pornprasertsom surveying bleached corals during her coral conservation and citizen science course at Black Turtle Dive around Koh Tao island in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani on on June 14, 2024. (LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images)

Coral reefs being pushed to extinction

Matthew Rozsa
Heavy waves break against the Oregon coast as a bomb cyclone storm system moves over the Northwest United States on October 24, 2021. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Bomb cyclone kills one in Northwest

Matthew Rozsa
Bacteriophage, illustration (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Curious history of life-saving viruses

Amber Dance - Undark
A Palestinian woman stands near olive trees, wearing a keffiyeh, in Hebron, Palestinian territories, on September 29, 2024. (MOSAB SHAWER/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

How Israel weaponized trees in Palestine

Nicholas Liu
Doctor holding a test blood sample tube positive with Bird Flu test (Getty Images/SyhinStas)

Bird flu suspected in California child

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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