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Teenage boy resting his head against a reflective surface, looking to be in a sad or pensive mood. (Getty Images/Marcel ter Bekke)

How to love yourself

Tara Well
In this Dec. 30, 2016 photo, a truck leaves with metal products from the sprawling complex that is a part of the Jiujiang steel and rolling mills in Qianan in northern China's Hebei province. Faced with choking smog in the Chinese capital, Chinese media and policy circles often point to a list of culprits: the central government's inability to shut down polluting steel mills, the middle class's insatiable demand for cars, poorer segments of society's insistence on burning coal. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) (AP)

Paris Agreement: unrealistic target?

Shannon Osaka - Grist
OxyContin pill bottles scattered in front of protestors of the opioid crisis. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The opioid crisis is a big issue in NH

Amanda Latimore - The Conversation
FILE--This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a side view of a recently emerged adult female western glacier stonefly from below Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park, Mont. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, proposed adding the western glacier stonefly and the meltwater lednian stonefly to the government's list of threatened species.(Joe Giersch/U.S. Geological Survey via AP, File) (Joe Giersch/U.S. Geological Survey via AP, File)

Save the insects, save ourselves

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
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Activists rally against ExxonMobil during the Global Climate March in Washington, D.C., on November 29, 2017. (Johnny Silvercloud/Flickr)

Calls for law firm to #DropExxon

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
A quarantine warning is displayed outside the horse racing track at Turf Paradise, Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, in Phoenix. Turf Paradise has euthanized one horse and is quarantining two others in the wake of a herpes outbreak that surfaced in New Mexico.(AP Photo/Matt York) (AP)

Trump ripening U.S. for pandemics

Linda J. Bilmes - The Conversation
In this undated photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a dispersing wolf from the Oregon Pack OR-54, a descendent of the famous OR-7, the first wild wolf in California in nearly a century. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife says the 3- to 4-year-old female dubbed OR-54 was found on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, in Shasta County, Calif. It's not clear yet whether she died by accident, naturally or was deliberately and illegally killed. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/AP Photo)

A wolf's 8,700-mile journey for love

Nicole Karlis
Hale-Bopp Comet behind the Very Large Array (VLA) Radio Telescope near Socorro, New Mexico. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The mystery of the extragalactic signal

Nicole Karlis
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Women receiving surprise bills for IUD

Shefali Luthra - KFF Health News
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Bats can carry viruses without symptoms

Marnie Willman - Massive Science
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Good for business, bad for patients

Melissa Bailey - KFF Health News
Charcoal Toothpaste (Getty Images)

The charcoal "health" trend needs to die

Nicole Karlis
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In this July 8, 2015 file photo a bumblebee gathers nectar on a wildflower in Appleton, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Climate chaos driving bumblebee decline

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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How a plant-rich diet can reduce stress

Kathleen Kevany - The Conversation
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Exploring the biology of friendship

Elizabeth Svoboda - Undark
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Nanopackaging the answer to food waste?

Emerson Grey - Massive Science
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Exhaust billows from Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex in Philadelphia, Thursday, June 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Refineries spew cancer-causing benzene

Mike Ludwig - Truthout
A multi-ethnic group of adults are taking a yoga class together at the gym. They are sitting on their exercise mats and are meditating with their eyes closed and their hands together at heart center. (Getty Images)

Can yoga help you change the world?

Lauren Schiller
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Food safety regs: a paucity of research

Teresa Carr - Undark
View of the gas tanks for the liquid natural gas (LNG) drive of the cruise ships of the Carnival Cruise Line at the Neptun dockyard in Rostock, Germany, 1 December 2017. (Bernd Wüstneck/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Does Carnival's green claims hold water?

Maria Gallucci - Grist
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People wearing facemasks to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city, wait at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan on January 24, 2020. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty)

Can China prevent its next epidemic?

Apoorva Mandavilli - Undark
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Sense of smell without olfactory bulbs?

Thiago Arzua - Massive Science
Kim McIntyre, from LaJolla, Calif., along with her dog Benji rest on the beach in Encinitas, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. California is having another day of unseasonable warmth before a low-pressure system brings rain and snow. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi) (AP)

Say goodbye to another heat record

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Concept: The New York Times' take on Coronavirus, featuring a 1882 illustrated depiction of diseases emanating from Chinatown. (Getty Images/WikiCommons/Salon)

The racist art of naming a virus

Marie Myung-Ok Lee
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