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The first climate change disease is here

Shira Tarlo
Students take part in a Climate March on April 12, 2019 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Educators urged to join climate strike

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
MRI of spinal column (Getty Images)

The problem with MRIs for low back pain

Lola Butcher - Undark
The nursing home in Hollywood Hills, Fla., where 12 people died after the center lost power from Hurricane Irma in 2017. (Mpi122/mediapunch/ipx)

Nursing home evacuation still dangerous

Lindsay J. Peterson, Kathryn Hyer - The Conversation
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When homophobes weaponize science

Nicole Karlis
A flooded street after Hurricane Sandy. (Getty/jonathansloane)

"Another hurricane?"

Paola Rosa-Aquino - Grist
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South Korea is hell for millions of dogs

Nina Jackel - Independent Media Institute
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Meet the weirdest planet in the galaxy

Nicole Karlis
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Protesters for women's rights march to the Alabama Capitol to protest a law passed last week making abortion a felony in nearly all cases with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, Sunday, May 19, 2019, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP/Butch Dill)

We need a plan for a post-Roe America

Jody Steinauer
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Coming out about mental health

Tarena Lofton - KFF Health News
Climate change activists take part in the international Strike for Climate protest in Los Angeles on May 24, 2019. (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

Unions have a plan for climate action

Rachel M. Cohen - In These Times
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"The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine" by Dr. Jen Gunterv (Citadel Press/Chloe Jackman)

Jen Gunter wants to save your vagina

Amanda Marcotte
Satellite image shows forest fires in the Krasnoyarsk region of Eastern Siberia, Russia (AP/Roscosmos Space Agency)

Siberian wildfires hasten climate crisis

Nicole Karlis
July 27, 2006 arrest file photo made available by the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, in Florida, shows Jeffrey Epstein. (AP/Palm Beach Sheriff's Office)

Report links Epstein to major scientists

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

J&J must pay for role in opioid crisis

Matthew Rozsa
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Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on September 3, 2017, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage. (Getty/Karim Sahib)

Rising temps could endanger the Hajj

Paola Rosa-Aquino - Grist

A black hole just ate a neutron star

Nicole Karlis
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Exoplanets better suited for life?

Mike Wehner - BGR
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Feel like quitting? Blame brain cells

Claudia Lopez-Lloreda - Massive Science
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Dr. Lisa Sanders writing her article for the New York Times (Courtesy of Netflix)

Modern medicine: A detective story

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Aerial view of the Transamazonica Road (BR-230) near Medicilandia, Para State, Brazil on March 13, 2019. - According to the NGO Imazon, deforestation in the Amazonia increased in a 54% in January, 2019 (Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images)

Deforestation in the Amazon, explained

Catesby Holmes - The Conversation
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A land and water grab in parched Utah

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
Ta'Kaiya Blaney is a 15 year old student from the Tla'Amin First Nation on Vancouver Island, in BC, Canada. (Disney)

Indigenous hunters: Protecting the earth

Mylène Ratelle, Jeffrey Fabian - The Conversation
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