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Texas targets air quality programs

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Lori Gottlieb: Therapists are humans

Nicole Karlis
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Go big on e-cig regulation

Shefali Luthra - KFF Health News
FILE -- In this April 19, 2005, file photo, the last of shipment of high-level radioactive waste is driven away from the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Golden, Colo. (Sammy Dallal/The Daily Camera via AP, file) (AP)

Nevada wants DOE to remove plutonium

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
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Rose Main Reading Room at the New York Public Library (Getty/Drew Angerer)

Public libraries walk a fine line

Jane Roberts - Undark
Joaninha Manuel, 9, and her sister Rosita Moises Zacarias, 15, look at their father Francisco Simon in their house destroyed by the cyclone Idai as they go to seep in a shelter in Buzi, Mozambique, on March 22, 2019. (Getty/Yasuyoshi Chiba)

Disaster relief done right

Phil Buchanan
Candlelight memorial service for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School at Pine Trail Park on February 15, 2018 in Parkland, Florida. (mpi04/MediaPunch/IPX)

Media contagion and suicide

Lisa Pescara-Kovach
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Tips to stay safe while studying abroad

Chad M. Gasta - The Conversation
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Containers of Roundup a weed killer is seen on a shelf at a hardware store in Los Angeles on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. A battle over the main ingredient in Roundup, the popular weed killer sprayed by farmers and home gardeners worldwide, is coming to a head in California, where officials want to be the first to label the chemical, glyphosate, with warnings that it could cause cancer. Chemical giant Monsanto has sued the nation's leading agricultural producer, saying state officials illegally based their decision for warning labels on an international health organization. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) (AP)

Does Monsanto’s Roundup cause cancer?

Richard G. “Bugs” Stevens - The Conversation
FILE - This Nov. 11, 2014 file photo shows a deforested area dotted with blue tarps, marking the area where miners reside, and craters filled with water, caused by illegal gold mining activities, in La Pampa, in Peru's Madre de Dios region. Peru's government declared an emergency across a broad jungle region because of mercury contamination, much of it caused by wildcat gold mining. Photographer Rodrigo Abd of The Associated Press and three other journalists in Brazil, Colombia and El Salvador won the 2016 Maria Moors Cabot Prize, which recognizes excellence in coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) (AP)

Tax havens skirt conservation efforts

Cassie Freund - Massive Science
NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch, a member of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 59/60, attends her final exam at the Gagarin Cosmonauts' Training Centre in Star City outside Moscow on February 20, 2019. (Getty/STR/AFP)

NASA's All-Female Spacewalk cancelled

Nicole Karlis
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How food companies are making you sick

Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner - Independent Media Institute
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New clues from giant storms on Neptune

Nicole Karlis
Rodrigo Duterte; Donald Trump (Getty/Noel Celis/Alex Wong)

Why incompetent men fail upwards

Nicole Karlis
An aerial view shows part of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, which is one of Africa's richest ecosystems, with forests, grassland, a lake and a mountain. (AP Photo/Christopher Torchia) (AP)

Death toll rises after Cyclone Idai

Eric Holthaus - Grist
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Yale psychiatrist: How we enable Trump

Tana Geneva - Raw Story
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Trump and Pence vs. choice

Melissa Haussman - The Conversation
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Electrifying news!

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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Did your doctor "ghost" you?

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
Andrew Wheeler (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Suddenly, it’s all about clean water

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
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Teens are lonelier than ever

Jean Twenge - The Conversation
"One Nation Under Stress" (Courtesy of HBO)

How inequality affects mental health

Alli Joseph
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Can we send thoughts brain to brain?

Jordan Harrod - Massive Science
Heavy smog in Piccadilly Circus, London, 6th December 1952.; "The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution : and how We Can Fight Back" by Gary Fuller (Getty/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Penguin Random House)

The study that changed the world

Gary Fuller
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