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"De-extincting" species is a distraction

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Windmills in Eastern Oregon. (Getty Images / zaft)

Northwest's lagging green energy goals

Tony Schick, Monica Samayoa - ProPublica
Check up visit in doctor's office (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

The risks of "diagnosis creep"

Lola Butcher - Undark
Insect design integrated with microchip. (Getty Images / Chayanan)

Cyborg bugs are here: Are they ethical?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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A Pacific giant octopus crawls over a colorful anemone filled bottom. (Getty Images / Mauricio Handler)

Maybe don't anthropomorphize octopuses

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A framed vulture surrounded by beautiful flowers (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / milanosss / 500px / Eduardo R / Tomekbudujedomek / Sergey Ryumin)

Your mom's so ugly

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Young woman with her son protesting in the street. (Getty Images / FG Trade)

The moms fighting for climate justice

Elizabeth Hlavinka
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks as US Vice President JD Vance visits the East Palestine Fire Department in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3, 2025. (REBECCA DROKE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

EPA all but stops policing environment

Tom Perkins - Grist
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Marble Roman bust with a surgical mask over its face. (Getty Images / OsakaWayne Studios)

Colonialism is at the root of pandemics

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Members of the DEA in White Plains, New York on April 24, 2021. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

DEA abandoning body cam program

Mario Ariza - ProPublica
Baby boy having brain tested, Seattle, Washington. (Getty Images / Aaron MCcoy)

What's it like to be a baby?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A mixture of steam and pollutants are emitted from the Naughton coal-fired power plant November 22, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyoming. (Natalie Behring/Getty Images)

Energy data latest Trump and DOGE victim

Peter Elkind - ProPublica
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Row of medical vials and syringe. (A. Martin UW Photography / Getty Images)

Trump betting on old vaccine tech

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Close-Up Of Human Eye. (Getty Images / Adriana Duduleanu)

The surgery to forever change eye color

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Woman holding birth control pills (Getty Images/Isabel Pavia)

Trump plays favorites with Title X funds

Rachana Pradhan - KFF Health News
Woman sleeping peacefully in bed, wearing a smart watch to track her sleep patterns. (Getty Images / whitebalance.space)

When sleep trackers make sleep worse

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Climate change, conceptual illustration. (Getty Images / MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Chaos is the essence of climate change

Gernot Wagner
A close-up of a spoon filled with colorful, loop-shaped cereal is surrounded by more vibrant cereal pieces. (Getty Images / Stefania Pelfini, La Waziya Photography)

Removing food dyes is not a panacea

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Bird Flu (Getty Images/Peter Garrard Beck)

Bird flu isn't as silent as we think

Carlyn Zwarenstein
9/30/1965 - Tan Son Nhut, South Vietnam: A flight of four United States Air Force Ranch Hand C-123s spray a Viet Cong jungle position near here with a defoliating liquid. The four specially equipped aircraft cover a swath of more than 1,000 feet wide on each pass over the dense jungle. (Getty Images / Bettmann)

Vietnam still bears the scars of war

Pamela McElwee - The Conversation
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A man who did not want to be identified holds up a sign while standing along Broadway as he joins hundreds of others during a large rally and protest outside of NOAA in Boulder, Colorado on March 3, 2025. (Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Trump proposal may gut climate modeling

Abrahm Lustgarten - ProPublica
Cochliomyia hominivorax, the New World screwworm fly, or screwworm for short, is a species of parasitic fly that is well known for the way in which its larvae (maggots) eat the living tissue. (Getty Images / Ramdan Fatoni)

The US could get screwed on screwworm

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Couple holding hands on the bed. (Getty Images / Maria Korneeva)

Psychedelics could fix your sex life

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A >5mm member of section Longisetae of the genus Mycena, so named for the long, hyaline spines (setae) which emanate from the pileus and stipe. Some members of this group are bioluminescent. (Danny Newman)

Secrets of Ecuador’s weird rare shrooms

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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