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Fish and plastic (Getty Images/Sergi Escribano)

Plastic pollution is filtering into fish

Matthew Rozsa
Sun beams shinning underwater on the tropical coral reef (Getty Images/Tunatura)

Historic UN treaty would protect oceans

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Faucet with Water Drip (Getty Images)

Ala. water fund discriminated: complaint

Siri Chilukuri - Grist
Seagull carrying a plastic cup (Getty Images/Robert Pleško)

Birds are eating way too much plastic

Troy Farah
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Iceberg melting in Disko Bay in Greenland (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

Greenland's water ecosystem being remade

Avery Schuyler Nunn - Grist
The Sami flag (C) is seen as police carry a Sami activist away, during a protest at the entrance of Norway's Ministery of Finance, in Oslo, on March 2, 2023. - On February 28, 2023, climate activist Greta Thunberg and dozens of indigenous Sami activists expanded a protest against contested wind turbines in Norway by blocking entrances to several government ministries. (OLIVIER MORIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Sámi demonstrators end wind farm protest

Elisabeth Rasmussen - Grist
A rooster is held in a cage on a farm on January 23, 2023 in Austin, Texas. The poultry industry as well as private flocks are suffering a health crisis as the bird flu continues to spread across the United States. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Bird flu tears through animal kingdom

Troy Farah
An activist hangs the Sami flag on a scaffolding next to the Ministry of Oil and Energy during an action staged on March 2, 2023 in Oslo, in a protest against wind turbines built on land traditionally used to herd reindeer. (JAVAD PARSA/NTB/AFP via Getty Images)

Protests against Norweigian wind farm

Tristan Ahtone - Grist
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anti-diabetic medication "Ozempic" (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

The cost of the Ozempic craze

Nicole Karlis
Woman running, stretching and meditating (Getty Images/We Are)

Is exercise better than antidepressants?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A cemetery stands in stark contrast to the chemical plants that surround it October 15, 2013. 'Cancer Alley' is one of the most polluted areas of the United States and lies along the once pristine Mississippi River that stretches some 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where a dense concentration of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and other chemical industries reside alongside suburban homes. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

Justice Dept. sues Louisiana polluters

Lylla Younes - Grist
Heavy snow covers a line of palm trees near a home in Rancho Cucamonga, California, on February 25, 2023. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Why California is still in a drought

Nicole Karlis
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12th President Zachary Taylor (Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

The presidential murder mystery of 1850

Matthew Rozsa
Thacker Pass (U.S. Bureau of Land Management)

Lithium mine controversy in Nevada

Gabriela Aoun Angueira - Grist
(Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Alaska’s coastal towns fight erosion

Saima Sidik - Grist
Edible cannabis products are displayed at Essence Vegas Cannabis Dispensary before the midnight start of recreational marijuana sales on June 30, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Why the high from edibles differs

Troy Farah
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Ghost Town Centralia in Pennsylvania (Benno Schwinghammer/picture alliance via Getty Images)

This ghost town is permanently on fire

Matthew Rozsa
Pumpjack at oil industry against cloudy sky during sunset in North Dakota, USA (Getty Images)

N.D. to sue Minn. over clean energy

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Colorful poppies and other wildflowers at the Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve one hour north of Los Angeles, drawing visitors to a "super bloom" on March 31, 2019, near Lancaster, California. (George Rose/Getty Images)

Tourists could ruin Cali "superbloom"

Troy Farah
Logistics and transportation of Container Cargo ship (Getty Images/Thatree Thitivongvaroon)

Shipping is causing a carbon nightmare

Joseph Winters - Grist
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Ron Fodo, Ohio EPA Emergency Response, looks for signs of fish and also agitates the water in Leslie Run creek to check for chemicals that have settled at the bottom following a train derailment that is causing environmental concerns on February 20, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio. (Michael Swensen/Getty Images)

Living in a petrochemical hub

Eve Andrews - Grist
A member of the medical staff (L) checking the body temperature of a patient who has displayed mild symptoms of the COVID-19 coronavirus, at an exhibition centre converted into a hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

FBI director believes lab leak theory

Matthew Rozsa
Woman struggling to sleep at night (Getty Images/Motortion)

Abidemi Otaiku
Tucker Carlson | Humpback Whales Spotted Around New York City (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Right spreading misinfo on wind power

Nicole Karlis
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