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The common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) (Getty Images/USO)

Hippos are majestic but threatened

Assaf Levy
Catherine, Princess of Wales smiles during her visit to Sebby's Corner on November 24, 2023 in Barnet, England. (Frank Augstein - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Kate's data fiasco a warning for us all

Rae Hodge
Employees of the Redux Recycling GmbH company sort batteries. (Carmen Jaspersen/picture alliance via Getty Images)

UN warns of silicon mountain of e-waste

Matthew Rozsa
The Apple Inc. logo is displayed on a smartphone screen, with a graphic representation of the stock market in the background. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Justice Department takes on Apple

Matthew Rozsa
Catherine, Princess of Wales attends the Christmas Morning Service at Sandringham Church on December 25, 2023 in Sandringham, Norfolk. (Stephen Pond/Getty Images)

Sexism fueled Kate theories, not concern

Nicole Karlis
Man after trekking with sweaty t-shirt drinking water against mountains (Getty Images/Stanislaw Pytel)

Could sweat treat Lyme disease?

Matthew Rozsa
Patients line up for their weekly injections at a clinic for leprosy in Suva, Fiji, circa 1950. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Leprosy cases are rising in the US

Robert A. Schwartz - The Conversation
Aerial view of fishing boat in waters of Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Norway (Getty Images/Raffi Maghdessian/Aurora Photos)

Human activity is heating our oceans

Matthew Rozsa
An Amazon package lies on a conveyor belt in the DHL package center. (Robert Michael/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Why isn't Amazon recycling its plastic?

Joseph Winters - Grist
In the hospital waiting room, a woman rests her head in her hands to think. (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

Why some abortion patients go to the ER

Nicole Karlis
A woman feeling sick in her living room. (Getty Images/Roos Koole)

Should you mask for norovirus?

Nicole Karlis
An unweaned kittens peeks from it's shelter inside the kitten nursery at the Best Friends Animal Society shelter on Thursday, April 27, 2017 in Mission Hills, CA. (Patrick T. Fallon for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Kitten season is out of control

Sachi Mulkey - Grist
Teen brothers at the pool (Getty Images/Karan Kapoor)

The debate over kids and Ozempic

Nicole Karlis
Aerial view of the Interstate 10 junction with Highway 90 near downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. (Getty Images/Art Wager)

Racist legacy of a New Orleans highway

Drew Hawkins - KFF Health News
January 15, 2024: A kayak left on the dry soil next to the low water-level reservoir of Sau, with in background the Sant Roma de Sau church, in the province of Girona in Catalonia. (LLUIS GENE/AFP via Getty Images)

Why 2024's "lost winter" alarms experts

Matthew Rozsa
A globe balancing on the edge of a beam (Getty Images/Daniel Grizelj)

Will climate change hit a tipping point?

Matthew Rozsa
Two teenage girls in a skatepark, sharing a cell phone (Getty Images/Westend61)

How to solve American loneliness

Nicole Karlis
A young group of people meeting together at a barbecue are chatting and smiling as they greet each other (Getty Images/Hinterhaus Productions)

Asexuality is not a disorder to be cured

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Water protectors join hands in prayer at the end of the day's protest as police line the hill at Standing Rock on Nov. 24, 2016, during an ongoing dispute over the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

FBI sent informants to Standing Rock

Alleen Brown - Grist
Firefighters work at the Botanical Garden after a forest fire in Viña del Mar, Chile, on February 4, 2024. (JAVIER TORRES/AFP via Getty Images)

On Chilean wildfires, Darwin and climate

Nikolas Kozloff
The shadow of a hand with a syringe (Getty Images/Mikhail Dmitriev)

Why the measles outbreak worries me

Helen W. Boucher
US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during her visit to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on March 14, 2024. (STEPHEN MATUREN/AFP via Getty Images)

Harris first VP to visit abortion clinic

Matthew Rozsa
Ryan Graves, executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace, David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Officer Representative of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force at the U.S. Department of Defense, and Retired Navy Commander David Fravor | Still image released by the Pentagon of and "Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon" (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/US Pentagon)

UFO experts question Pentagon's report

Rae Hodge
Thousands of youth, frontline advocates and climate and community activists joined in the March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City, making it the largest climate mobilization in the United States since the start of the pandemic. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Climate change matters in 2024 election

Matt Burgess - The Conversation
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