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A herd of Plains Bison or buffalo grazing in Grand Teton Natonal Park in Wyoming, USA. (Jon G. Fuller/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The evolution of conservation

Rachel Love Nuwer - Undark
(Leonardo Carrato/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

How much forest did we lose in 2020?

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Covid-19 and vaccination concept (Getty Images)

Meet the "vaccine angels"

Nicole Karlis
Funny pie fight between a young couple (Getty Images)

Why April Fools' pranks are good for you

Matthew Rozsa
Live Animal Market (Getty Images)

WHO, Biden admin clash over COVID origin

Matthew Rozsa
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Dr. Fauci and Rand Paul spar over masks

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
Two prescription bottles with pain pills spilling out of them (Getty Images)

COVID lessons for lowering drug costs

Michael S. Kinch, Lori Weiman - Undark
Doctor examining breasts with mammogram (Getty Images)

Isolating a deadly breast cancer gene

Matthew Rozsa
Young couple in medical masks quarreling (Getty Images)

My husband is vaccinated. I'm not

Nicole Karlis
Discarded used disposable medical mask floats in sea waters (Getty Images)

PPE is clogging our oceans

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/urbazon)

Scientists seek COVID treatment answers

Esther Landhuis - KFF Health News
Community food bank volunteers working during COVID-19 crisis (Getty Images)

The post-pandemic social prescription

Nicole Karlis
Coronavirus vaccine bottle with a Red-colored passport (Getty Images)

Biden plans for vaccine "passports"

Nicole Karlis
Anti-vaccine activists hold signs and chant in front of the Massachusetts State House against Governor Charlie Baker's mandate that all Massachusetts school students enrolled in child care, pre-school, K-12, and post-secondary institutions must receive the flu vaccine this year on August 30, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

How 12 anti-vaxxers steered social media

Matthew Rozsa
A woman holds up a QAnon sign to the media at a Donald Trump campaign rally at Atlantic Aviation on September 22, 2020 in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

QAnon followers prone to mental illness

Sophia Moskalenko - The Conversation
A worn-out mouth and nose protection mask lies thrown away on the street (Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images)

CDC director warns of "impending doom"

Matthew Rozsa
"The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement" by Jürgen Martschukat (Photo illustration by Salon/Erfurt University/Polity)

Neoliberalism's joyless fitness culture

Nicole Karlis
Man stressing on laptop late at night (Getty Iamges)

6 tips to help detect fake science news

Marc Zimmer - The Conversation
Young male nurse caring for an elderly patient in a wheelchair (Getty Images)

We need more men in caring professions

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/zeynepogan)

5 ways COVID changed how we travel

Mary A. Shiraef - The Conversation
Students conducting scientific experiment (Getty Images)

Women in STEM face a "confidence gap"

Jasmeen Merzaban
Warehouses that were converted to keep the infected people quarantined. The patients are suffering from the 1918 Influenza pandemic. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Sick and tired, ready for pandemic’s end

J. Alexander Navarro - The Conversation
People walk by yachts moored at the Hercules Port in Monaco on September 25, 2019 during the 28th edition of the International Monaco Yacht Show. - The Monaco Yacht Show is considered the most prestigious pleasure boat show in the world with the exhibition of 500 major companies in luxury yachting and featuring over a hundred super and megayachts. (VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

Cutting carbon matters — if you're rich

Maddie Stone - Grist
Biospherian 2nd crew (Courtesy of Institute of Ecotechnics)

The inside story of Biosphere 2

Kathelin Gray
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