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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., addresses supporters during a town hall in San Antonio, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Poaching Warren's climate strategy?

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
People take part in a "Youth Strike 4 Climate" protest against global warming and climate change outside the Central Station on March 6, 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Europe wraps up warmest winter on record

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams

Patents slowing the COVID-19 vaccine

Dean Baker - Truthout
Bonnie Castillo, executive director of National Nurses United, speaks during a news conference at the National Nurses United offices on March 05, 2020 in Oakland, California. The National Nurses United held a news conference to express concerns that the Centers for Disease Control is not doing enough to help protect and test healthcare workers who are exposed to patients with the COVID-19 virus. (National Nurses United; Coronavirus)

"Hospitals are unprepared" for COVID-19

Nicole Karlis
Ann Druyan (Yurie Kwon/Beck Media/Getty Images)

Ann Druyan on the optimism of "Cosmos"

Nicole Karlis
Kokanee, Also Known As Sockeye, Salmon Spawning In Big Creek, Fresno, United States (Getty Images)

To save the salmon, the dams have to go

Mark Kurlansky
Male nurse doing routine checkup of senior patient in hospital room (Getty Images/Ridofranz)

Coronavirus a nursing home nightmare

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
(NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images)

COVID-19 has raised fears of pandemic

Yuqi Na - The Conversation
A healthcare worker prepares to transport a patient on a stretcher into an ambulance at Life Care Center of Kirkland on February 29, 2020 in Kirkland, Washington. Dozens of staff and residents at Life Care Center of Kirkland are reportedly exhibiting coronavirus-like symptoms, with two confirmed cases of (COVID-19) associated with the nursing facility reported so far. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

Coronavirus spread underestimated in WA

Nicole Karlis
Clubshell mussel. (Stihler Craig, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Public domain)

Wildlife service kills endangered mussel

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
A rat eats on the platform at the Herald Square subway station in New York City on July 4 2017. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Rat control starts with changing habits

Michael H. Parsons - The Conversation
(Shutterstock/science photo)

The solution to soaring drug prices?

Vishal Khetpal - Undark
Passengers wear face masks to protect against the spread of the Coronavirus as they arrive on a flight from Asia at Los Angeles International Airport, California, on January 29, 2020. (Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)

Problems with U.S. testing procedures

Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
Wildflowers cover this hills of the Tremblor Range in Carrizo Plain National Monument near Taft, California during a wildflower "super bloom," April 12, 2017. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

AB 342: Saving public lands in the West?

Casey O'Brien - The Revelator
(AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

Scientists try spray-on plant vaccines

Fabiola De Marchi - Massive Science
Protest posters in the village of Harmondsworth, which was under threat of demolition because of plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport on February 27, 2020 in London, England. (Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

UK court blocks Heathrow expansion

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Julie Johnson of Utah says she explored the possibility of becoming an egg donor but ultimately changed her mind. Then the clinic turned on her. (James Roh for Undark)

Would-be egg donors face threats, bills

Alison Motluk - Undark
Janelle Monae, from left, Taraji P. Henson, and Octavia Spencer pose with Katherine Johnson, seated, backstage at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

7 lessons from Katherine Johnson's life

Della Dumbaugh - The Conversation
(Gary John Norman/Getty Images)

Freecycling instead of buying new

April M. Short - Independent Media Institute
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue speaks at an Ag Policy Summit during a visit Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019 to Decatur, Ill. Perdue has sought to assuage farmers' fears of financial problems after China halted purchases of U.S. farm products in an escalating trade war. (AP Photo/John O'Connor)

Trump ag sec wants carbon pricing

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
A power generating windmill towers above a nuclear power plant operated by Exelon on June 14, 2018 near Marseilles, Illinois (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump rails against wind turbines, again

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Michael Bloomberg and Bernie Sanders (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Is a doctor's note enough in 2020?

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
The Ebola Virus and the Coronavirus looked at through a microscope (Getty Images)

Inside COVID-19's bizarre genetics

Nicole Karlis
A team of nurses with Livio Health Group took the vital signs of Anthony Nichols 52, at the large homeless camp Monday September 24, 2018 in Minneapolis, MN. Nichols said that he has a heart condition and had not been taking his medicine; he was later transported to local hospital by ambulance. Nichols said that he had been staying at the camp for only two days. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Can you afford a coronavirus test?

Nicole Karlis
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