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Pollen Allergy (Getty/BigPappa)

Your allergies are about to get worse

Nicole Karlis
Young man smoking electronic cigarette while drunk friends sleeping after party (Getty Images/ LightFieldStudios)

The future social costs of e-cigs

Shira Tarlo
Dental X-ray of child's mouth. (Courtesy of Masrour Makaremi / MIT Press Reader)

The birth certificate in your mouth

Tanya M. Smith - MIT Press Reader
This satellite image provided by NASA on Aug. 13, 2019 shows several fires burning in the Brazilian Amazon forest. (NASA via AP)

From Trump's trade war to the Amazon

Cassie Freund - Massive Science
(George Frey/Getty Images)

Gutting the environmental appeals board

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
(Getty Images/istockphoto)

Skill that doesn’t deteriorate with age

Roger J. Kreuz - The Conversation
Depressed woman in bed with hand on forehead (Getty/ Martin Dimitrov)

Suicide hotline added to CA student IDs

Mark Kreidler - KFF Health News
Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)

Climate change, poverty and human rights

Lisa Benjamin, Meinhard Doelle, Sara L Seck - The Conversation
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)

How America fails to feed its aging

Laura Ungar, Trudy Lieberman - KFF Health News
FILE - This July 24, 2006 file photo shows a gray wolf at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, file) (AP)

Ancient dog bones reveal lifestyle clues

Jaime Chambers - Massive Science
An upset elementary school boy hides his face while being bullied by two other boys. Shot in front of their elementary school. (Getty/ Brycia James)

Teach your kids to stand up to bullying

Caroline Maguire
A New York City police officer stands guard nest to demonstrator Juliette Proctor during a protest against abortion bans, Tuesday, May 21, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

New abortion laws & structural sexism

Patricia Homan - The Conversation
Pump jacks are seen on the Bakken Shale Formation, near Williston, North Dakota, September 6, 2016. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

North Dakota may be hiding big oil spill

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
Group Of Dogs With Owners At Obedience Class (Getty/Highwaystarz-Photography)

How breeding is changing dogs' brains

Nicole Karlis
Donald Trump shows an executive order which he just signed on health insurance (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

Trump's "phenomenal" health plan

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
Satelite footage of Hurricane Dorian (NOAA/Getty/Sean Gallup)

Why 5G will impede hurricane tracking

Nicole Karlis
(Getty Images)

Gene-edited lizards walk among us

Nicole Karlis
(AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Politics, stop ruining carbon farming

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Mark Zuckerberg (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

What’s private depends on who you are

Richard Wilk - The Conversation
FILE - In this April 23, 2014, file photo, Daryl Cura demonstrates an e-cigarette at Vape Store in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) (AP)

Lack of regulation is killing vape users

Nicole Karlis
A gas flare at an oil well site on July 26, 2013 in Williston, North Dakota. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

"Sociopathic disregard for our future"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AP/Cliff Owen)

Debunking anti-Green New Deal rhetoric

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty Images)

Wyoming to regulate air ambulance costs

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
(Getty Images)

Pharma cash rolls into Congress

Emmarie Huetteman, Jay Hancock, Elizabeth Lucas - KFF Health News
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