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Syrian refugee children run at an informal refugee camp, at Al-Marj town in Bekaa valley, east Lebanon Lebanon, Saturday, April 8, 2017. For the millions of Syrian refugees scattered across camps and illegal settlements across the region, the chemical attack on a town in northern Syria and subsequent U.S. strike was a rare moment when the world briefly turned its attention to Syria, before turning away again.(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) (AP)

Climate drove Syrian refugees to Lebanon

Hussein A. Amery - The Conversation
This photo taken on August 6, 2017 shows cleared forest land, previously covered with illegally-planted oil palm trees and removed by workers from the Leuser Conservation Forum or Forum Konservasi Leuser (FKL), ahead of replanting of endemic vegetation in the Aceh Tamiang area of Aceh province. (Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP via Getty Images)

"Orangutan capital” is being destroyed

Laurel Sutherlin - Truthout
This illustration shows the white dwarf WDJ0914+1914 and its Neptune-like exoplanet. Since the icy giant orbits the hot white dwarf at close range, the extreme ultraviolet radiation from the star strips away the planet’s atmosphere. While most of this stripped gas escapes, some of it swirls into a disc, itself accreting onto the white dwarf. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

A dissolving exoplanet's prophesy

Nicole Karlis
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From skull to skin

Abigail Zuger M.D. - Undark
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Grumpy hungover man with coffee (Getty Images)

The "hangover gap" class war

Nicole Karlis
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Army quietly re-opens germ warfare lab

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
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Candidates are betting big on health

Julie Rovner - KFF Health News
(James Balog/Extreme Ice Survey via AP) (AP)

Filling in the gaps in our history books

Miyo McGinn - Grist
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Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg carries the placard "School strike for the climate" which she held outside the Swedish parliament, upon her arrival in Santo Amaro Recreation dock on December 03, 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal. Greta Thunberg sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, USA , accompanied by her father Svante Thunberg on the French built Outremer 45 catamaran La Vagabonde, skippered by Australian Riley Whitelum, and is on her way to attend COP25 in Madrid, Spain. (Horacio Villalobos/Getty Images)

Thunberg sails across Atlantic

Matthew Rozsa
Female Red-backed shrike perched on the twig (Getty Images)

Birds are shrinking. Here's why

Nicole Karlis
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)

"A recipe for disaster"

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
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"I feel like I’m in jail"

Melissa Bailey - KFF Health News
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Pregnant Woman By The Sea (Getty Images/iStock)

Climate change is shortening pregnancy

Nicole Karlis
PlanetSolar press officer Julia Tames walks across the deck of the MS Turanor PlanetSolar, the world's largest solar-powered boat, moored at Zea Harbor, in Athens, on Tuesday Aug. 5, 2014. The 35-meter (115-foot) vessel is in Greece to take part in a Swiss-Greek underwater archaeology project to survey the seabed off a major prehistoric site, in hope of finding traces of what could be one of the earliest villages in Europe. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) (AP)

No land, no problem

Maria Gallucci - Grist
(AP/Toby Talbot)

Xmas tree shopping is harder than ever

James Robert Farmer - The Conversation
Teenage boy holding a puppy dog (Getty Images)

Why some people can't read dog emotions

Nicole Karlis
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Is digital addiction ruining your life?

Terri R. Kurtzberg - The Conversation
The drug lobby is stepping up efforts to out-play Trump (AP)

Why are drug prices rising so much?

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
Firefighters try to save a building as the Camp Fire moves through the area on November 8, 2018 in Paradise, California (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Coping with (power) loss

Mark Kreidler - KFF Health News
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Genetic diversity missing from biobanks

Rebecca Muir - Massive Science
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Mountain Lion on moss covered rocks (Getty Images/iStock)

Coastal fog is poisoning pumas in Calif.

Nicole Karlis
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A rating system for science claims

Christie Aschwanden - Undark
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Piracetam found in brain supplements

Eli Wolfe - FairWarning
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Trump defenders and science deniers

Lee McIntyre - The Conversation
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