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Dry and cracked riverbed is seen during drought season on April 23, 2021 in Santa Clara County, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

Climate whiplash explains weather events

Jane Braxton Little - TomDispatch.com
Residents talk with a caregiver in the dining room at Emerald Court in Anaheim, CA on Monday, March 8, 2021. (Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Nursing home staff lagging on boosters

Eric Schank
Baby formula shortage, empty shelves at Target due to product recall and supply chain issues, Queens, New York. (Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Formula scarcity spurs deeper questions

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Asteroid (Getty Images)

Wealthy nations carving up space riches

Theodora Ogden - The Conversation
Kids playing with handheld video games in the library (Getty Images/Andy Ryan)

Are video games good for kids?

Matthew Rozsa
(Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

NYC pushes for more rooftop solar

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Dakota Access Pipeline (Getty Images)

Harsh sentence for Dakota protester

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
A shopper is reflected in a glass case while looking at baby formula at a grocery store in Washington, DC, on May 11, 2022. The United States is in the grip of a severe shortage of baby formula. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

The baby formula scammers are here

Nicole Karlis
At the University of Minnesota's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, the door to the lab where the first step is taken in the testing of samples for the monkeypox virus has a warning sign to let others know not to enter. (JUDY GRIESEDIECK/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Monkeypox hits U.S. shores

Matthew Rozsa
Dusting a broccoli seed bed, the speeding plane throws out a tail of insect-killing dust that gets underneath as well as on top of the small leaves. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

The toxic legacy of DDT

Andru Okun - Undark
Mars surface, canyons (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

No living, smoking gun in Mars meteorite

Eric Schank
Young man playing with black greyhound on sofa. (Getty Images/lucia meler)

TikTok's worrisome dog-barking trend

Nicole Karlis
Farzana Bibi, a maid female domestic servant, a resident in a slum, says she, used to earn Rupees 300 a day ($2.6), she says she has been told not to continue to stop the spread of the virus, as India remains under an unprecedented extended lockdown over the highly contagious coronavirus (COVID-19) on April 22, 2020 in New Delhi, India. (Yawar Nazir/Getty Images)

Hardships for domestic workers in India

Romita Saluja - Undark
A royal Bengal Tiger in its natural habitat (Getty Images/Abhishek Singh)

India's tigers entangled in a blame game

Niranjana Rajalakshmi - Food52
U.S. Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray explains a video of unidentified aerial phenomena, as he testifies before a House Intelligence Committee subcommittee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on May 17, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Inside Congress' bizarre UFO hearing

Eric Schank
Preparing baby milk formula (Getty Images/HUIZENG HU)

Don't make baby formula at home

Matthew Rozsa
Artist's interpretation of habitable alien planets, a distant star system (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Are we looking for aliens the wrong way?

Nicole Karlis
Growth of trees in drought crisis (Getty Images/R_Tee)

"Flash droughts" threaten the Midwest

Diana Kruzman - Grist
US Steel Mill, Zug Island, Rouge and Detroit River. (Getty Images/Cavan Images Rf)

The race to produce green steel

Marcello Rossi - Undark
Three cats in a sunny meadow playing on the grass, standing/dancing on their hind legs (Getty Images/Nataba)

Cats know each other's names: study

Matthew Rozsa
German Philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche pictured on a smartphone (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Nietzche vs. Big Tech

Mary Elizabeth Williams
01 March 2022, Berlin: The drug Paxlovid against Covid-19 from the manufacturer Pfizer is lying on a table. (Fabian Sommer/picture alliance/Getty Images)

Gov won't say if Paxlovid is accessible

Hannah Recht - KFF Health News
Young pregnant woman in the hospital ward having video call (Getty Images/Kemal Yildirim)

Virtual birth doulas phone it in

Nicole Karlis
Aerial view, looking northwest, across part of NASA's Manned Space Center (later renamed the Lyndon B Johnson Space Center) campus, Houston, Texas, 1960s. (NASA/Interim Archives/Getty Images)

"Cambridge, we have a problem"

Robert Buderi
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