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This handout photo released by SUAQ Foundation on June 23, 2022, shows Rakus, a male orangutan with a facial wound, at Gunung Leuser National Park in North Sumatra, Indonesia. (SUAQ Foundation/AFP via Getty Images)

Primate heals itself with plant medicine

Matthew Rozsa
Patient man receiving IV drip in hospital (Getty Images/Zinkevych)

Coach's death due to chemo drug shortage

Rae Hodge
Mars Sample Return Concept Illustration (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Shaky future of Mars sample return

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Industrial Wasteland VS Natural Green Field (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Fighting climate change demands degrowth

Matthew Rozsa
Cannabis buds and leaves with lemon (Getty Images/Gleti)

Study: Lemony weed is chill indeed

Rae Hodge
Biodegradable trash paper and plastic spread out (Getty Images/Tatiana Maksimova)

How to get companies to use reusables

Joseph Winters - Grist
An abortion rights activist holds a sign at a protest in support of abortion access, March To Roe The Vote And Send A Message To Florida Politicians That Abortion Access Must Be Protected And Defended, on July 13, 2022 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (John Parra/Getty Images for MoveOn)

FL's abortion ban could "buckle" clinics

Nicole Karlis
Members of Arizona for Abortion Access, the ballot initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona State Constitution, hold a press conference and protest condemning Arizona House Republicans and the 1864 abortion ban during a recess from a legislative session at the Arizona House of Representatives on April 17, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

AZ Senate vote to repeal abortion ban

Nicole Karlis
A man smells a glass of Moscato wine in a vineyard of the Monferrato countryside in Alice Bel Colle, near Alessandria, northwestern Italy on August 30, 2023. (MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images)

Wine industry slammed by climate change

Matthew Rozsa
PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 26: Cows graze in a field at a dairy farm on April 26, 2024 in Petaluma, California. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is ordering dairy producers to test cows that produce milk for infections from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) before the animals are transported to a different state following the discovery of the virus in samples of pasteurized milk taken by the Food and Drug Administration. ((Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images))

Bird flu is not yet the "cow flu"

Nicole Karlis
Dr. Paul Harmatz doing a general check-up on Joao Bueno (left), 6 years old, from Brazil, during his weekly enzyme replacement therapy with other children having different forms of MPS--Mucopolysaccharidosis--at Oakland Children's hospital in Oakland, Ca ((Photo By Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images))

FDA must change approach to rare disease

Matthew Ellinwood, Mark Dant
Close-up of senior woman using cannabis at home (Getty Images/Emilija Manevska)

Biden moves to reclassify marijuana

Nandika Chatterjee
Squirrel close up with a pigeon in the background (Getty Images/Sara Lynch/EyeEm)

Climate change is hitting squirrels too

Matthew Rozsa
Standing at the edge of the Klamath River in rural Northern California, a Yurok man leans into the river with his traditional dip net, about to land a salmon. (Getty Images/Justin Lewis)

Tire toxins are killing off salmon

Jim Robbins - KFF Health News
TikTok logo displayed on a phone screen is seen through broken glass. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

TikTok heist is privacy hypocrisy

Rae Hodge
The vantage point of the foothills of the Chilean Andes provides some of the best views of the night sky in the world, especially from Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. Earth is oriented in such a way that most of the Milky Way can be seen on a clear night from the southern hemisphere, where CTIO is located. (CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský)

Protecting darkness in Atacama desert

Alexa Robles-Gil - Undark
Neosporin is displayed on a store shelf. (Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

Can nasal Neosporin prevent COVID-19?

Nicole Karlis
Eagle Pass Station 1 emergency medical technicians respond to a pregnant woman suffering from dehydration on July 19, 2023 in Eagle Pass, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Reproductive rights amid climate change

Anu Kumar
Mars Express sees traces of ‘spiders’ in Mars’s Inca City (Photo illustration by Salon/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/TGO/CaSSIS)

Mars probe spots "spider" shapes

Matthew Rozsa
The Medical University of South Carolina is conducting a genetics research project to study how DNA affects health conditions, such as heart disease and cancer. Lee Moultrie, a member of the community advisory board for the project, regularly wears a bright-blue pullover with the words "In Our DNA SC" embroidered on the front to encourage people to enroll in the study. (Gavin McIntyre/KFF News)

Genetics studies have diversity problem

Lauren Sausser - KFF Health News
Dairy Cattle (Getty Images/Peter Cade)

We don't know how bad bird flu is yet

Nicole Karlis
California City, CA - October 10: Lisa LaVelle, a naturalist, holds a desert tortoise hatchling that she found crawling in patio of her Ridgecrest home. LaVelle warns that it is against the law to take any wild tortoise from its habitat and to move any captive tortoise back out in the wild. Photographed on Monday, Oct. 10, 2022 in California City, CA. ((Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images))

Can we still save the desert tortoise?

Matthew Rozsa
Tomato (Getty Images/Glowimages)

Pesticides multiply under EPA proposal

Sharon Lerner - ProPublica
Pro-abortion activists rally for "reproductive rights and emergency abortion care" outside the US Supreme Court as it hears arguments in the Moyle v. United States case, in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2024. The case deals with whether an Idaho abortion law conflicts with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). ((Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images))

SCOTUS hears challenges to abortion law

Nicole Karlis
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