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South Korea is hell for millions of dogs

Nina Jackel - Independent Media Institute
(Caltech)

Meet the weirdest planet in the galaxy

Nicole Karlis
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
"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
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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
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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(Marcelo Hernandez/Getty Images)

Exoplanets better suited for life?

Mike Wehner - BGR
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Feel like quitting? Blame brain cells

Claudia Lopez-Lloreda - Massive Science
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
White nationalist demonstrators walk into Lee park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. (AP/Steve Helber)

White nationalists and environmentalism

Alexandra Minna Stern - The Conversation
Kokia drynarioides, commonly known as Hawaiian tree cotton, is a species of flowering plant endemic to Hawaii that is critically threatened due to habitat loss and competition with invasive species. (David Eickhoff/Wikmedia Commons)

Earth's plant species are in peril

Lorraine Chow - Truthout
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A baby inside a hospital incubator (Getty/Fethi Belaid)

A medical scandal repeats itself

Carl Shuker
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Denying coverage for breastfeeding help

Teresa Carr - Undark
Firefighters light backfires as they try to contain the Thomas wildfire which continues to burn in Ojai, California on December 9, 2017. Brutal winds that fueled southern California's firestorm finally began to ease Saturday, giving residents and firefighters hope for respite as the destructive toll of multiple blazes came into focus. / AFP PHOTO / MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

It’s not just the Amazon that’s ablaze

Claire F.R. Wordley - The Conversation
Climate change activists take part in the international Strike for Climate protest in Los Angeles on May 24, 2019. (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

70 US counties deal with climate change

Molly Enking - Grist
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