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A gas flare at an oil well site on July 26, 2013 in Williston, North Dakota. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Big Oil spends big money to clean up

Kate Yoder - Grist
This illustration shows NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander approaching a site on Saturn’s exotic moon, Titan. Taking advantage of Titan’s dense atmosphere and low gravity, Dragonfly will explore dozens of locations across the icy world, sampling and measuring the compositions of Titan's organic surface materials to characterize the habitability of Titan’s environment and investigate the progression of prebiotic chemistry. (NASA/JHU-APL)

Humanity's space travel plans, 2020–2030

Nicole Karlis
Boxes of Crisco All-Vegetable Shortening (Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How Crisco toppled lard

Helen Zoe Veit - The Conversation
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Humanity's plastic problem

Valerie Vande Panne - Independent Media Institute
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Make purposeful New Year's resolutions

Benjamin Houltberg, Arianna Uhalde - The Conversation
In this April 2016 photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a ring-tailed lemur and her baby sit on a tree branch at the Bronx Zoo in the Bronx borough of New York. (Wildlife Conservation Society/Julie Larsen Maher via AP) (AP)

Planting trees can save lemurs

Andrea L. Baden - The Conversation
Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)

Climate politics went mainstream in 2019

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
A waterfall in the Amazon rainforest. (Shutterstock)

The statistic of the decade

Liberty Vittert - The Conversation
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A packet of open cigarettes (Getty Images/iStock)

FDA raises age to buy tobacco products

Shira Tarlo
This GOES-16 satellite image taken Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, at 17:20 UTC and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows Hurricane Dorian, right, moving over open waters in the Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters are now saying Dorian could be a Category 4 with winds of nearly 140 mph (225 kph) when it is forecasted to hit Florida late Monday or early Tuesday. It’s also imperiling the Bahamas, where the storm is expected to hit by Sunday. (NOAA via AP) (AP)

Shrinking budgets, rising seas

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
(Getty Images)

Clogging the system

Diane Peters - Undark
"Washington Crossing the Delaware," (1851) oil on canvas painted by Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868). (Bettmann Archive)

Washington’s Christmas night crossing

Richard Gunderman - The Conversation
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Should you avoid meat for good health?

Dariush Mozaffarian - The Conversation
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What do kids really think about Santa?

Jonathan Lane - The Conversation
This artist’s impression shows the supergiant star Betelgeuse as it was revealed thanks to different state-of-the-art techniques on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), which allowed two independent teams of astronomers to obtain the sharpest ever views of the supergiant star Betelgeuse. They show that the star has a vast plume of gas almost as large as our Solar System and a gigantic bubble boiling on its surface. These discoveries provide important clues to help explain how these mammoths shed material at such a tremendous rate. (ESO/L. Calçada)

Why Betelgeuse may go supernova

Shira Tarlo
Fighting for a future: Young protesters at the Global Climate Strike in London on March 15, 2019. (Garry Knight/Flickr)

A year of resistance

Joe Curnow, Anjali Helferty - The Conversation
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(George Frey/Getty Images)

Federal Toxmap shutters

Michael Schulson - Undark
Hurricane Irma seen striking Miami, Florida with 100+ mph winds and destructive storm surge, and "Building A Resilient Tomorrow" by Alice C. Hill & Leonardo Martinez-Diaz (Oxford University Press)

When will the US learn from disasters?

Alice C. Hill, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
"What Science Is and How It Really Works" by James C. Zimring (Cambridge University Press/Getty Images)

Why science is a social construct

James C. Zimring
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (AP/Seth Wenig)

Time running out to pass NY climate law

Rachel Ramirez - Grist
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Giant sequoia redwood tree in Tuolumne Grove of Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Valley, California, 2016. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Does forest thinning save the redwoods?

Becki Robins - Undark
This April 21, 2010, file photo shows a large plume of smoke rising from BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Soaking up oil spills

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Shot of a young woman getting massaged at a beauty spa (Getty Images)

The 2010s became the decade of self-care

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/AleksandarNakic)

Science: Sloppy gift wrapping is better

Erick M. Mas - The Conversation
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