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A worker from the Cobra Energy Company, contracted by the Army Corps of Engineers, installs power lines in the Barrio Martorel area of Yabucoa, a town where many residents continue without power in Puerto Rico. (AP/Carlos Giusti)

What will a Jones Act waiver mean for PR

Paola Rosa-Aquino - Grist
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., left, and Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, listen to statements by the minority as Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, a doctor and former congressman, testified on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, before a House Appropriations subcommittee to outline the Trump Administration's proposals to trim the HHS budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

GOP rep wants to fight climate change

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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Rich mining companies, poor miners

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
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How the autistic are casually belittled

Matthew Rozsa
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Hansen says the GND is "nonsense"

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Joe Biden (Getty/Mark Wilson)

What happens to Biden's Moonshot now?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A University of California San Francisco police officer makes a phone call as he stands watch overlooking the Mission Bay campus Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010, during a UC Board of Regents meeting in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) ((AP Photo/Ben Margot))

UCSF may merge with Dignity Health

Jenny Gold - KFF Health News
In this Aug. 19, 2014, photo provided by Gotham Whale, a humpback whale surfaces in the Atlantic Ocean just off the Rockaway peninsula near New York City. Humpbacks have been approaching the city in greater numbers than in many years; there were 87 sightings in nearby waters from a whale-watching boat 2014. (AP Photo/Gotham Whale/Paul Sieswerda) (AP)

Pipeline hurting NY's green new image

Justine Calma - Grist
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Employers use perks to control your life

Elizabeth C. Tippett - The Conversation
FILE - This Friday, March 20, 2009 file photo shows reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany. A new study released by the journal Science on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2016 says a person’s risk of becoming depressed or hooked on smoking may be influenced by DNA inherited from Neanderthals. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) (AP)

A Neanderthal tooth and human migration

Mirjana Roksandic - The Conversation
A poster released by Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is seen as experts answer questions regarding the measles response and the quarantine orders in Los Angeles Friday, April 26, 2019. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

Anti-vax movement spurs measles outbreak

Nicole Karlis
A soybean field is fumigated near Urdinarrain, Entre Rios province, Argentina, on February 8, 2018. (PABLO AHARONIAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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NYC passes climate legislation

Greta Moran - Massive Science

The high cost of sex

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
A Christie's employee holds a sketch of David Hockney's painting Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott, painted in 1969 displayed in the background, at Christie's auction house in London, Friday, March 1, 2019. (AP/Frank Augstein)

How art lost its center

Jay David Bolter
An immigrant child looks out from a U.S. Border Patrol bus, McAllen, Texas, June 23, 2018. (AP/David J. Phillip)

Cancer is dangerous for Texan immigrants

Charlotte Huff - KFF Health News
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Traffic on the northbound and the southbound lanes of the Interstate 405 freeway near Los Angeles International Aiprort (Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

Gen Z's carbon footprint is too big

Vanessa Nason - WhoWhatWhy
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Democracy has a problem with science

Michael J. Thompson, Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker
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The case for environmental justice

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
In this Sept. 19, 2014, photo, Charles Cook, manager of facilities and operations at Champions Oncology, displays mouse carrying a cancer patient's tumor graft under its skin in a lab in Baltimore. Cancer patients are paying the private lab to breed mice that carry bits of their own tumors so treatments can be tried first on the customized rodents. The idea is to see which drugs might work best on a specific person's specific cancer. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (AP)

From mice to humans

Kimberly McCoy - Massive Science
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FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2012 file photo, smoke rises in this time exposure image from the stacks of the La Cygne Generating Station coal-fired power plant in La Cygne, Kan. The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday, April 18, 2017, asked a federal appeals court in Washington to postpone consideration of 2012 rules requiring energy companies to cut emissions of toxic chemicals. The agency said in a court filing it wants to review the restrictions, which were set to kick in next month. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) (AP)

Reducing agricultural carbon emissions

Lauren McKee - Massive Science
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Association insurance pushes on

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
Skid Row residents start their morning, Monday, March 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) (AP)

Homeless are dying on the streets of LA

Anna Gorman, Harriet Blair Rowan - KFF Health News
(Sophie Lanfear / Silverback/Netf)

Shedding light on walruses in distress

Darcy Shapiro - Massive Science
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