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

PPE is clogging our oceans

Matthew Rozsa
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (Getty Images)

A battle over female genital mutilation

Ruchi Kumar - Undark
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