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Plastic waste (Getty Images/Anna Efetova)

How to build a zero-waste economy

Joseph Winters - Grist
Life reconstruction of Olympicetus thalassodon pursuing a school of fishes alongside plotopterid birds (background) somewhere in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. (Art by Cullen Townsend)

Ancient dolphin cousins with weird teeth

Matthew Rozsa
A protester holds a placard expressing her opinion during the demonstration. (Michael Currie/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

An OBGYN on abortion fears come true

Nicole Karlis
Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on May 03, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Abortion denials may trigger lawsuits

Harris Meyer - KFF Health News
Dozens of people attend a vigil remembering the 58 people killed in Sunday's shooting in Las Vegas and calling for action against guns on October 4, 2017 in Newtown, Connecticut. The vigil, organized by the Newtown Action Alliance, was held outside the National Shooting Sport Foundation and looked to draw attention to gun violence in America. Twenty school children were killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown on December 14, 2012. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Gun violence keeping us in fear

Owen Racer - KFF Health News
An undated photo shows tourist submersible belongs to OceanGate descents at a sea. Search and rescue operations continue by US Coast Guard in Boston after a tourist submarine bound for the Titanic's wreckage site went missing off the southeastern coast of Canada. (Photo by Ocean Gate / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Lost Titanic sub imploded: Coast Guard

Nicole Karlis
Planet Saturn (Getty Images/Science Photo Library/MARK GARLICK)

Ingredient for life found on Saturn moon

Matthew Rozsa
Thousands of abortion-rights activists gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court after the Court announced a ruling in the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization case on June 24, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Muddled abortion laws confuse doctors

Heidi Fantasia - The Conversation
An undated photo shows tourist submersible belongs to OceanGate begins to descent at a sea. Search and rescue operations continue by US Coast Guard in Boston after a tourist submarine bound for the Titanic's wreckage site went missing off the southeastern coast of Canada. (Ocean Gate / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Why "Titaniacs" risk it all for a wreck

Nicole Karlis
Planet Earth On A Tightrope (Getty Images/mspoli)

Humans have changed the Earth's axis

Matthew Rozsa
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visits "The Faulkner Focus"at Fox News Channel Studios on June 02, 2023 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

Why some left-leaning folks support RFK

Nicole Karlis
An undated photo shows tourist submersible belongs to OceanGate descents at a sea. Search and rescue operations continue by US Coast Guard in Boston after a tourist submarine bound for the Titanic's wreckage site went missing off the southeastern coast of Canada. (Photo by Ocean Gate / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

What is the missing Titanic sub?

Stefan B. Williams - The Conversation
Friends hanging out at a music festival (Getty Images/Klaus Vedfelt)

Men, you need to make more friends

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Therapist discussing with women in waiting room. (Luis Alvarez via Getty Images)

Abortion and hospital ethics committees

Elizabeth Lanphier, Jake Earl - The Conversation
Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush (David Bohrer/U.S. National Archives via Getty Images)

A history of Republican climate denial

Matthew Rozsa
Gas pump in gas station (Getty Images/MR.WUTTISAK PROMCHOO)

The hidden cost of gasoline

Kate Yoder - Grist
Visitors to Louisville's annual Arcade Expo in 2023 were invited to play this four-flipper vintage pinball machine produced by Atari. (Photo by Rae Hodge)

Pinball vs. Big Tech's obsolesence love

Rae Hodge
Solar panels and wind turbines | Oil (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Big Oil loves renewable energy

Nick O’Hara
(Getty Images/Westend61)

The rise of the older dad

Nicole Karlis
A construction crew works on a section of privately built border wall funded by hardline immigration group We Build The Wall on December 11, 2019 near Mission, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Climate migration news spurs border fear

Kate Yoder - Grist

Opioid settlement payouts made public

Aneri Pattani - KFF Health News
Conceptual illustration of inflammation of the brain caused by a virus (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

More evidence COVID-19 changes brain

Nicole Karlis
An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank crew with Company A, 4th Tank Battalion, fires its 120 mm main gun during the company’s pre-qualification tank gunnery at Range 500, Aug. 4, 2015. The live-fire exercise tests tank crews on their ability to work together on target acquisition and accuracy. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Julio McGraw/Released)

Ukraine gets depleted uranium munitions

Kathryn Higley - The Conversation
Rusting tanks inside the now derelict Union Carbide factory compound. These tanks used to store methyl isocyanide, the toxic chemical that leaked on December 23, 1984 killing at least 5,000 people in the following 72 hours and many thousands more subsequently. (Satish Bate/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

The '80s disaster still destroying lives

Matthew Rozsa
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