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In this Friday, March 17, 2017 photo a sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market in Topsham, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

"SNAP saves lives"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

FDA has double-standard on some drugs

Sydney Lupkin - KFF Health News
Hubble Ultra Deep Field conceptualized as a sphere (Nasa/Salon)

Why the universe may end with a crunch

Nicole Karlis
Cookie in space (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why NASA wants to bake cookies in space

Nicole Karlis
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Should we ban frequent flyer programs?

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
A California Street cable car operator and passenger wear breathing masks to protect against smoke from wildfires Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

The California exodus begins

Nicole Karlis
(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Arrival of a planetary fire age?

Stephen Pyne - The Conversation
Elizabeth Warren (AP Photo/ Cheryl Senter/Susan Walsh/Salon)

Insurance industry fears Liz Warren

Wendell Potter - Independent Media Institute
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Sick in bed, with tissues and tea (Getty Images/sestovic)

Here's how to avoid this year's flu

Shira Tarlo
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Scientists demand "paradigm shift"

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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Oil companies must cut production by 35%

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams
(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

"It happens over and over and over"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Meth is the deadliest drug in the west

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
Giant pumpkin grown by local farmers weights 930 lbs on display at roadside out of a small village in Canada before Halloween. (Getty Images/Jun Zang)

How to grow a giant pumpkin

Nicole Karlis
Aerial view of the Bangkok city skyline and the Chao Phraya River, Thailand. (Getty Images/Deejpilot)

These cities will drown as the seas rise

Nicole Karlis
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg poses for a photograph during an inteview with AFP onboard the Malizia II sailing yacht at the Mayflower Marina in Plymouth, southwest England, on August 13, 2019 ahead of her journey across the Atlantic to New York where she will attend the UN Climate Action Summit next month. (BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images/Salon)

Thunberg declines award for activism

Matthew Rozsa
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A Cal Fire firefighter monitors the Kincaide Fire as it burns a hillside on October 24, 2019 in Geyserville, California. Fueled by high winds, the Kincaide Fire has burned over 7,000 acres in a matter of hours and has prompted evacuations in the Geyserville area. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images))

Farmworkers face health risks in fires

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
Intense flames driven by extreme drought conditions, wind and hot weather sweep over a remote section of the San Bernardino National Forest during the Blue Cut Fire on August 18, 2016 near Wrightwood, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

“This is what climate change looks like"

Matthew Rozsa
A new SPHERE/VLT image of Hygiea, which could be the Solar System’s smallest dwarf planet yet. As an object in the main asteroid belt, Hygiea satisfies right away three of the four requirements to be classified as a dwarf planet: it orbits around the Sun, it is not a moon and, unlike a planet, it has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit. The final requirement is that it have enough mass that its own gravity pulls it into a roughly spherical shape. This is what VLT observations have now revealed about Hygiea. (ESO/P. Vernazza et al./MISTRAL algorithm (ONERA/CNRS))

Is Hygiea the new Pluto?

Nicole Karlis
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The vaping crisis is real

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
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FILE - In this May 11, 2003, file photo, Microbiologist Ruth Bryan works with BG nerve agent simulant in Class III Glove Box in the Life Sciences Test Facility at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. The specialized airtight enclosure is also used for hands-on work with anthrax and other deadly agents. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is investigating what the Pentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores to government and commercial laboratories in as many as nine states, as well as one overseas, that expected to receive dead spores. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File) (AP)

Kate Yoder
Intense flames driven by extreme drought conditions, wind and hot weather sweep over a remote section of the San Bernardino National Forest during the Blue Cut Fire on August 18, 2016 near Wrightwood, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Why everyone should care about wildfires

Nicole Karlis
Floodwaters associated with Hurricane Matthew surround homes and an ambulance on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, in Lumberton, N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory said Thursday the number of power outages was down to about 55,000, from a high of nearly 900,000 when the storm hit. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco) (AP)

If facts won't work, what will?

Kate Yoder - Grist
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Acid rain, that ’70s scourge, comes back

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
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