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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
Pregnant Woman By The Sea (Getty Images/iStock)

Climate change is shortening pregnancy

Nicole Karlis
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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
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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
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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The fight against food-borne outbreaks

Bhavya Singh - Massive Science
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A momentous transition

David M. Hart - The Conversation
Humpback Whale (Getty Images/Science Photo Library)

What the blue whale's heart sounds like

Nicole Karlis
Activists rally against ExxonMobil during the Global Climate March in Washington, D.C., on November 29, 2017. (Johnny Silvercloud/Flickr)

Climate activists turn to the courts

Hillel Aron - FairWarning
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Jim Inofe puts his lake house first

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
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"We cannot afford to fail"

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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Can peer support help those with HIV?

Keren Landman - Undark
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Count your neurons and your blessings

Suzana Herculano-Houzel - The Conversation
A chemical plant of TPC Group is shrouded by smoke in Port Neches, about 150 km east of downtown Houston, Texas on Nov. 27, 2019. (Steven Song/Xinhua via Getty)

Chemical plant explosion rocks TX town

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
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