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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
(Getty/Halfpoint)

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
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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
(Shutterstock)

U.S. becoming more climate change–aware

Nathaniel Geiger - The Conversation
(Shutterstock/Osugi)

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
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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
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
(Shutterstock)

Why exercise is so important as you age

Scott Lear - The Conversation
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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
(Getty Images/istockphoto)

Survivors seek healing in self-defense

Gitit Ginat - Undark
Two birds perch on a snow-covered branch of a tree during a storm in Washington, DC, March 21, 2018. (David Gannon/AFP/Getty Images)

"Bird emergency"

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams
(Getty/Salon)

Collagen in your coffee? Forget it

Brooke Russell - The Conversation
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Boston Emergency Medical Services EMT Paul Mitchell sits in an ambulance at his station in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston. Mitchell, with bystander Carlos Arredondo and volunteer Devin Wang, are credited with helping to save the life of Jeff Bauman, who suffered traumatic injuries in the Boston Marathon bombings. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

EMTs under assault

Bob Hennelly
(George Frey/Getty Images)

Big Oil rolls out a new era of spin

Kate Yoder - Grist
(Getty/kosmos111)

Invasive mosquitoes on the move

Harriet Blair Rowan - KFF Health News
This Friday, Feb. 26, 2010 file photo shows the cruise ship Celebrity Mercury docked at the South Carolina State Ports Authority passenger terminal in downtown Charleston S.C., after passengers became sick with a stomach bug. (AP Photo/Mic Smith, File)

Preparing for sickness at sea

Bruce Horovitz - KFF Health News
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Viral infection disease attacking cell abstract idea illustration (Getty Images/iStock)

We're approaching a common cold cure

Nicole Karlis
Traffic on the northbound and the southbound lanes of the Interstate 405 freeway near Los Angeles International Aiprort (Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

CA sues Trump admin over emissions rule

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

Berkeley triggers chain of anti-gas laws

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Students attend the climate strike at Philadelphia City Hall. Philadelphia was just one of the dozens of cities in which young people went on strike. (Amanda Marcotte)

On the ground at the climate strike

Nicole Karlis, Amanda Marcotte, Keith A. Spencer
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