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EPA to ease rules on storing coal ash

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
Protesters hold signs as they rally in support of Planned Parenthood and pro-choice (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Study debunks the "abortion regret" myth

Corinne Rocca
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Calif. doctors to screen kids for stress

Barbara Feder Ostrov - KFF Health News
A pantry is filled with gluten-free food products (Washington Post/Getty Images)

The mystery of celiac disease

Nicole Karlis
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The ethics of replicating bones

Sarah Wild - Undark
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"Secret science" rule threatens health

Gabriel Filippelli - The Conversation
Kelly Placke of Star Bright Farms in Cuba City, Wisconsin. (David Nevala)

A sunny future

Lisa Held - Civil Eats
Cattle graze as the sky turns orange from bushfires in Towamba, 20km from Eden in southern New South Wales on January 10, 2020. (Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images)

How wildfire smoke affects animals

Stephanie Laura Bond, Laura Osborne, Renaud Leguillette - The Conversation
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Better treatment for neonatal withdrawal

Elizabeth Brico - Undark
A Puerto Rican flag waves on top of a pile of rubble as debris is removed from a main road in Guanica, Puerto Rico on January 8, 2020. (Ricardo Arduengo/AFP via Getty Images)

Puerto Rico wasn’t ready for earthquakes

Paola Rosa-Aquino - Grist
Woman eating pizza and drinking wine in front of the refrigerator during the night (Getty Images)

The psychology behind better habits

Ashlie D. Stevens
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FDA under scrutiny

Hillel Aron - FairWarning
Traffic on the northbound and the southbound lanes of the Interstate 405 freeway near Los Angeles International Aiprort (Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

U.S. emissions dipped in 2019

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
RFS Firefighters battle a spot fire on November 13, 2019 in Hillville, Australia. Catastrophic fire conditions - the highest possible level of bushfire danger - have eased across greater Sydney, Illawarra and Hunter areas thanks to a slight cool change, however dozens of bushfires are still burning. A state of emergency, as declared by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Monday, is still in effect, giving emergency powers to Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons and prohibiting fires across the state. (Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

"We need you to do less harm"

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams
Radio transmission to the Milky way galaxy and star dusts in deep space (Getty Images)

A "mystery signal" hits home

Nicole Karlis
Hemp lollipops (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Weed edibles less benign than you think

Nicole Karlis
Puffins (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Seabirds have learned to use tools

Nicole Karlis
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket is seen as it launches with the NASA Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) onboard, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The ICESat-2 mission will measure the changing height of Earth's ice. (NASA/Bill Ingalls/Getty Images)

Satellites: sentinels of a grim future

Jon Gertner - Undark
In this Wednesday, May 20, 2015 photo, contractors walk past a capacitor bank at an AEP electrical transmission substation in Westerville, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) (AP)

A Midwestern wind battle

Sharon Zhang - Truthout
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Evidence-based medicine & Peter Gøtzsche

Daniel Kolitz - Undark
The scientist Elizabeth Rona in about 1925 at the Radium Institute in Vienna. Through her work, the world would learn how radioactivity could be used as a clock in studying the earth’s history, informing the modern practice of geochronology. (Hans Pettersson Archive/Gothenburg University Library/New York Times)

How Elizabeth Rona changed science

Brittney Borowiec - Massive Science
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All-American pot: the next big export

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
This Sept. 29, 2016 file photo, shows a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline under construction near the town of St. Anthony in Morton County, N.D. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

Failure to communicate

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
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5 tips to keep your microbiome healthy

Connie Rogers, Darrell Cockburn - The Conversation
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