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A rainbow is seen from the hotel where Val and Kali Casco have been staying near Lahaina, HI, on Aug. 29, 2023. (Tamir Kalifa for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Youth force Hawai'i climate action

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 20 Starlink internet satellites into space soars across the sky after sunset above the Pacific Ocean after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 18, 2024, as seen from San Diego, California. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

SpaceX pulls off a double-header

Rae Hodge
Thumbs Up, Drowning In Data (Photo illustration by Salon/GEtty Images)

The hypocrisy of AI doomerism

Émile P. Torres
The male Iberian lynx Kalama pictured in his enclosure at Madrid zoo. (Jorge Sanz/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Iberian Lynxes are no longer endangered

Matthew Rozsa
Plastic bottles and other single-use plastic waste are seen floating in Khlong Toey canal. (Matt Hunt/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Delusion of advanced plastic recycling

Lisa Song - ProPublica
Elderly woman at doctors examination (Getty Images/Halfpoint Images)

The true cost of aging well

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Digital generated image of abstract AI chat icons over digital surface. (Andriy Onufriyenko, getty images)

Power-hungry AI centers strain grid

Griffin Eckstein
Drivers wait in a long line of cars for a COVID-19 test at a drive-through test site on December 9, 2020 in Riverside, California. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

"Flying blind" with bird flu

Amy Maxmen - KFF Health News
US actors Jake Gyllenhaal (L), Dennis Quaid (2nd L) and actress Emmy Rossum (2nd R) share a light moment with German director Roland Emmerich (R) during a photo session before a press conference to promote their movie "The Day After Tomorrow" in Tokyo, 31 May 2004. (TORU YAMANAKA/AFP via Getty Images)

The complicated legacy of a climate film

Matthew Rozsa
A labourer is silhouetted against the setting sun as he bathes on a hot summer day in Jammu on June 1, 2024. (MUKESH GUPTA/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change promises more deadly heat

Matthew Rozsa
In late 2019, the galaxy SDSS1335+0728 suddenly started shining brighter than ever before and was classified as having an active galactic nucleus, powered by a massive black hole in the galaxy’s core. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Scientists witness a black hole awaken

Matthew Rozsa
Empty hospital beds in hospital corridor (Getty Images/Jackyenjoyphotography)

The high price of whistleblowing

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Plate from 'The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle', published in London, 1839-1843, and edited by the British originator of evolutionary theory Charles Darwin (1809-1882). (SSPL/Getty Images)

The enduring mystery of Darwin’s warrah

Nikolas Kozloff
Bird Flu Infected Animals: Cow, Chicken, Cat and Mouse (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The biggest mysteries about bird flu

Troy Farah, Nicole Karlis
Child pouring water on himself on a hot day (Getty Images/AlesVeluscek)

Climate change damages children's brains

Matthew Rozsa
Transgender male patient being examined in hospital (Getty Images/rparobe)

Fighting cancer risks in LGBTQ health

Rae Hodge
Former US Secretary of State and former Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks during a session at CERAWeek by S&P Global Thursday, March 21, 2024 at Hilton Americas-Houston in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

John Kerry on climate change and Trump

Matthew Rozsa
3D illustration of double bed hovering in air and with white cloud above. ((OsakaWayne Studios / Getty Images))

A brain surgeon explains why we dream

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Big Bang, conceptual image (Getty Images/ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Did alien life form after the Big Bang?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Flooded streets in Fort Myers, Florida, after 24 hours of continuous rain, June 13. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Epic Fla. rain: Yep, it's climate change

Matthew Rozsa
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference on the Right to Contraception Act outside the U.S. Capitol on June 5, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

A threat to contraception remains

Nicole Karlis
Supreme Court of the United States | Mifepristone (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS rejects abortion drug challenge

Nicole Karlis
False color image of Antarctic ozone hole, 30 November 1992. NASA photograph. ((Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images))

Ozone protection efforts are working

Matthew Rozsa
Cultivated Tiehm's buckwheat is seen at Ioneer's Tiehm's buckwheat conservation greenhouse on May 8, 2024 in Gardnerville, Nevada. Tiehm's buckwheat, a rare and endangered wildflower endemic to the Silver Peak Range in Esmeralda County, Nevada grows beside Rhyolite Ridge, the site of a proposed lithium mine. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

A lithium mine versus a rare flower

Matthew Rozsa
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