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Salon covers science and health news through investigations, insightful reporting, commentary and analysis.

Plastic garbage lying on the Aegean sea beach near Athens on June 26, 2018 , Greece. (Getty/Milos Bicanski)

How plastic is destroying Earth

Nicole Karlis
A single-dose of the measles-mumps-rubella virus vaccine (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

Record year for measles cases, CDC says

Shira Tarlo
Alan Turing (Wikimedia)

Science must do better for LGBTQ+

Lila Leatherman - Massive Science
(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) (AP)

No verdict yet on crumb rubber fields

Marjie Lundstrom - FairWarning
(Getty/RomoloTavani)

How to avert a sixth mass extinction

Greg Asner - The Conversation
"Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight Over Controlling Nature" by Jordan Fisher Smith (Penguin Random House/Getty/VirtualVV)

The most contested land in the US

Jordan Fisher Smith
(Getty/Salon)

The planet is the patient now

Kinari Webb, Courtney Howard
(Getty/kerkla)

Female parakeets want brainy mates

Therese Koch - Massive Science
(AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File) (AP)

Metcalfe hits dead ends on agriculture

Kevin Pels - Massive Science
(Rainmaker Photo/MediaPunch/IPX)

Planned parenthood’s public image

Shefali Luthra, Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-160669p1.html'>Ollyy</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Workplace wellness programs don't work

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
An illustration of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) which found the Earth-sized planet HD 21749c. (NASA via AP)

TESS finds its first Earth-sized planet

Nicole Karlis
Marlboro cigarettes are displayed at a Walgreens pharmacy, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (AP)

Tobacco companies cough up $9 billion

Charles Betley - The Conversation
(Getty/artisteer)

Fundamentalism and brain damage linked

Bobby Azarian - Raw Story
(Getty/filistimlyanin)

How nonviolence changed our faces

Keith A. Spencer
Measles, mumps and rubella vaccines sit in a cooler at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., March 27, 2019. (AP/Seth Wenig)

CDC reports 90 measles cases in one week

Matthew Rozsa
"American Hemp" by Jen Hobbs (Simon & Schuster/Getty/johnwoodcock)

Hemp is our "Green New Deal"

Jen Hobbs
A photo of a different macaque monkey, taken by a human. (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-295900p1.html'>Dudarev Mikhail</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Do animals hear music?

Jennifer Tsang - Massive Science

Pollen is getting worse, not better

Kara Wada - The Conversation
Certified nursing assistant Cristina Zainos prepares a special wash using antimicrobial soap. (Heidi De Marco/KHN)

How to fight "scary" superbugs?

Anna Gorman - KFF Health News
(Narratively/Lianne Milton)

What parents need to know about 4/20

Caroline Knorr - Common Sense Media
Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Van Andel Arena on March 28, 2019 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Getty/Scott Olson)

Consumers rejected Trump-like drug plan

Sydney Lupkin - KFF Health News
(Getty Images)

Are you biased against nuclear power?

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
A picture taken on September 8, 2011 in Paris shows cans of various sodas. After the French government announced on August 24 to tax these products as part of its austerity plan to reduce the national debt, professionals of the industry contested the measure, last of which the US giant Coca-Cola who suspended a 17 million euro (23.780 million US dollars) investment in France. French President Nicolas Sarkozy insisted on September 7 he was determined to push through a balanced budget amendment called "golden rule" despite reports that he might drop the contested plan. AFP PHOTO JOEL SAGET (Photo credit should read JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images) (Joel Saget/Afp/getty Images)

Big Soda pours big bucks into California

Samantha Young - KFF Health News
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