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Salon covers science and health news through investigations, insightful reporting, commentary and analysis.

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Vaccine misinformation on social media

Ana Santos Rutschman - The Conversation
An image from Russell Trall's "The Hydropathic Encyclopedia" (1843)

Of Freud, therapeutics, and posture

Nathan Kravis - MIT Press Reader
MONTREAL, QC - SEPTEMBER 27: Led by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (C), young activists and their supporters rally for action on climate change on September 27, 2019 in Montreal, Canada. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take part in what could be the city's largest climate march. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images) (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)

“Eternal economic growth fairy tales”

Jennifer Ellen Good - The Conversation
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (AP/Andrew Selsky)

Will Oregon decriminalize all drugs?

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
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The Sackler family, profiteers of death

Shira Tarlo
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Lax oversight for gun locks and safes

Teresa Carr - Undark
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Climate change fueling nationalism?

Joshua Conrad Jackson, Michele Gelfand - The Conversation
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Elizabeth Warren with Chris Robinson (left) and Laural Clinton of the Iowa CCI Action Fund (Karla Conrad)

"Movement politics" resurges in Midwest

Charlie Mitchell - Civil Eats
Jim Allison playing the harmonica (Uncommon Productions)

"You can do science and have fun"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Barack Obama; Donald Trump (Getty/Scott Olson/AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump sabotages Obama-era chemical law

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
In this March 3, 2015 photo, a group of California sea lions rest on a large bouy in the San Ignacio lagoon, in the Pacific Ocean, near Guerrero Negro, in Mexico's Baja California peninsula. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) (AP)

The Blob is killing sea life

Nicole Karlis
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Private health insurance faces crisis

Wendell Potter - Independent Media Institute
On Sept. 17 at 1:30 p.m. EDT (17:30 UTC), the MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Terra satellite showed newly formed Tropical Depression 11 just after it made landfall along the Texas coast. Credit: (NASA Worldview)

Imelda dumped 40 inches of rain on Texas

Kate Yoder - Grist
US President Donald Trump speaks during the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York, September 24, 2019. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)

How to avert climate catastrophe

Evelyn Leopold - Independent Media Institute
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U.S. becoming more climate change–aware

Nathaniel Geiger - The Conversation
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World leaders gather at the UN

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
A picture taken on September 15, 2019 shows an Aramco oil facility near al-Khurj area, just south of the Saudi capital Riyadh. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images)

Saudi oil attack is environmental issue

Rachel Ramirez - Grist
Caduceus made out of binary code (Salon)

169 million health records compromised

Shira Tarlo
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

The future of livestock farming

Alice Theibault - Massive Science
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In this image taken on Thursday Aug.1, 2019 large rivers of melting water form on an ice sheet in western Greenland and drain into moulin holes that empty into the ocean from underneath the ice. (Photo via Caspar Haarløv, Into the Ice via AP)

What is the cryosphere?

Mark Serreze - The Conversation
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Why exercise is so important as you age

Scott Lear - The Conversation
A red panda (also known as a lesser panda) relaxes in its enclosure at the Beijing zoo on June 24, 2013. The zoo grounds were originally a Ming Dynasty imperial palace and finally opened to the public in 1908. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

In defense of napping

Nicole Karlis
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Survivors seek healing in self-defense

Gitit Ginat - Undark
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