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Heating and Cooling Technician Performing Scheduled Heat Pump Unit Service (Getty Images/welcomia)

Regulators spur conversion to heat pumps

Siri Chilukuri - Grist
Doctor with protective gloves prepares to examine a pregnant woman (Getty Iimages/SDI Productions)

Nonstick chemicals affecting pregnancies

Matthew Rozsa
Small girl writing with felt tip pen while relaxing on the carpet at home (Getty Images/skynesher)

The threat of lead still lingers

Yvette Cabrera - Grist
Woman in the hospital bed (Getty Images/kieferpix)

When L&D clinics close, women suffer

Nicole Karlis
U.S. President Joe Biden (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Climate change could spur huge losses

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Close view on the green young corn and some fertilizers (Getty Images/i-Stockr)

What to do if there's lead in your soil

Yvette Cabrera - Grist
Side view of mature woman embracing man from behind against clear sky (Getty Images/The Good Brigade)

The X chromosome's superpower

Nicole Karlis
Illustration of planet Venus with visible atmosphere (Getty Images/Artur Plawgo/Science Photo Library)

Venus joins the active volcano club

Matthew Rozsa
Computer illustration of Candida fungi (yeast). The most common representatives of Candida fungi are C. albicans and C. auris with similar morphology. (Getty Images/ KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Four fungi that threaten public health

Troy Farah
Locks are seen on the old Navajo Bridge over the Colorado River at Marble Canyon, Arizona, on August 31, 2022. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

SCOTUS hears Navajo water rights case

Jake Bittle, Maria Parazo Rose - Grist
Climate activist groups protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as oral arguments are heard in U.S. Forest Service and Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC v. Cowpasture River Assn. case, on February 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Pipeline protests criminalized in Utah

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) (Getty Images/Martin Moxter)

The raccoon dog–COVID connection

Troy Farah
Exhaust air rises from the chimneys of the Moorburg coal-fired power plant into the sky. (Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Biden urges SCOTUS on climate suits

Kate Yoder - Grist
A flame burns a tree during a forest fire in Cebreros on July 18, 2022 in Avila, Spain. Wildfires have broken out across Spain and southern Europe amid a severe heatwave. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

UN: A "livable future" is on the line

Joseph Winters - Grist
Cannabis and Joint (Getty Images/Thanasis)

When cannabis suddenly makes you ill

Troy Farah
(Getty Images)

Where is the AI arms race leading us?

Troy Farah
Exhaust air rises from the chimneys of the Moorburg coal-fired power plant into the sky. (Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images)

EPA cracks down on coal power pollution

Akielly Hu - Grist
Rush hour with taxis, bicyclists and people (Getty Images/Marco_Piunti)

Driving as a form of class privilege

Matthew Rozsa
Artificial Intelligence Chatbot concept (Getty Images/Carol Yepes)

The ChatGPT grift

Jeffrey Lee Funk, Gary N. Smith
Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters Building in Washington DC (Getty Images)

EPA staffing crisis causing problems

Lylla Younes - Grist
A woman demonstrates next to the empty pedestal after workers removed the statue of Dr. James Marion Sims on April 17, 2018, in New York. (THOMAS URBAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

The racist roots of gynecology

Nicole Karlis
President Richard Nixon posing for a photo after addressing the nation on Watergate (Bettmann/Getty Images)

The curious psychology of Richard Nixon

Matthew Rozsa
Robot hand using laptop and man hand writing (Getty Images/baona)

ChatGPT is great — you’re using it wrong

Jonathan May - The Conversation
Stressed mother and her baby (Getty Images/SolStock)

Reframing the "mommy brain" narrative

Nicole Karlis
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