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Salon covers science and health news through investigations, insightful reporting, commentary and analysis.

Abortion State Courts (Illustration by Oona Zenda/KFF Health News)

State judges have final say on abortion

Bram Sable-Smith, Katheryn Houghton - KFF Health News
A home burns during the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, California, on January 8, 2025. (AGUSTIN PAULLIER/AFP via Getty Images)

Wildfire "season" is no longer a thing

Nicole Karlis
People attempt to save a neighboring home from catching fire during the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025 in Altadena, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Increasing weather whiplash fuels fires

Kate Yoder - Grist
The photo taken on July 6, 2024 shows an aerial view of a partially submerged Guanyin temple in floodwaters in the swollen Yangtze River, in Ezhou, in central China's Hubei province. China is enduring a summer of extreme weather, with flooding across central and southern regions as much of the north swelters through rolling heat waves. (Photo by AFP / China OUT Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Hottest year on record is major failure

Matthew Rozsa
Abortion-rights supporters face anti-abortion protesters at a rally for reproductive rights at the Texas Capitol on May 14, 2022 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Montinique Monroe/Getty Images)

People flee abortion ban states

Nicole Karlis
Young female patient in the clinic suffering a coughing fit while the doctor listens to the her lungs with a stethoscope. (Getty Images/stefanamer)

Is it seasonal influenza or bird flu?

Nicole Karlis
Satellites Flying Around Earth (Getty Images/yucelyilmaz)

Scientists propose space junk cleanup

Matthew Rozsa
Alzheimers and dementia research, a brain scan in multi well tray used for research experiments in laboratory (Getty Images/Andrew Brookes)

Alzheimer’s may not be from amyloids

Joshua Cohen - Undark
Fire personnel respond to homes destroyed while a helicopter drops water as the Palisades Fire grows in Pacific Palisades, California on January 7, 2025. (DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump spreading wildfire misinformation

Matthew Rozsa
Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and Misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medication abortion (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

TX Republicans take aim at abortion pill

Eleanor Klibanoff - The Texas Tribune
Pluto and Charon (Getty Images/HYPERSPHERE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Pluto captured its moon with a kiss

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Los Angeles County firefighters pull a hose in front of a burning home as the Eaton Fire moved through the area on January 08, 2025 in Altadena, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

LA wildfires: Climate crisis is urgent

Daria Solovieva
A house smolders in the aftermath of the Marshall fire in Rock Creek above the Interlocken golf course December 31, 2021. (Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Wildfire smoke’s health risks can linger

Colleen E. Reid - The Conversation
Man's hands in protective gloves searching bread on empty shelves in a groceries store (Getty Images/ArtMarie)

Meet the bird flu pandemic preppers

Nicole Karlis
The Goldman Sachs logo appears on a smartphone screen (Jaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Wall Street bails on climate coalition

Matthew Rozsa
Female nutritionist discussing with her client about fruit portion in diet. (Getty Images/vgajic)

America needs a lifestyle revolution

Heidi Prather
ITHACA, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 10: HDC receiving staff prep arriving milk samples for testing at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University on December 10, 2024 in Ithaca, New York. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

First U.S. death from bird flu reported

Troy Farah
Geyser on Jupiter's moon Europa (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Why icy alien oceans could harbor life

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump causes scientists to flee the US

Matthew Rozsa
Used surgical mask thrown on the sand of a beach (Getty Images/nito100)

Lessons from infecting people with COVID

Claudia Lopez Lloreda - Undark
Cigarette Butt Stubbed Out (Getty Images/Peter Dazeley)

Smoking takes 20 minutes off life

Nicole Karlis
The common noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula) (Getty Images/Zdenek Macat)

Bats “surf” on storms, study finds

Matthew Rozsa
Hands holding microplastics on the beach (Getty Images/doble-d)

Microplastics linked to organ lesions

Matthew Rozsa
Young man refusing alcoholic drinks (Getty Images/Vyacheslav Dumchev)

Meet the "sober curious" generation

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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