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Small child carrying shopping bags (Getty Images / MariaMikhaylichenko)

Why American parents love "Old Enough!"

Nicole Karlis
Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Europe has a Russian nickel problem

Maddie Stone - Grist
Jupiter's large moon, Europa, is covered by a thick crust of ice above a vast ocean of liquid water (Getty Images/Ron Miller/Stocktrek Images)

The chance of life on Europa goes up

Matthew Rozsa
Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

LA County bans throwaway dishes

Joseph Winters - Grist
Anti-vaccine activists protest and hold signs in front of the Massachusetts State House against Governor Charlie Baker's mandate that all Massachusetts school students enrolled in child care, pre-school, K-12, and post-secondary institutions must receive the flu vaccine this year on August 30, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Anti-vaxxers gaining political ground

Sandy West - KFF Health News
Sad faces on sticky notes with one happy one (Getty Images / mikroman6)

Is the pursuit of joy causing misery?

Gail Cornwall
Hubble telescope orbitting Earth (Getty Images/NASA/dima_zel)

Hubble's greatest hits

Matthew Rozsa
Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

Rich countries export plastic trash

Joseph Winters - Grist
View of redwood trees from the forest floor (Getty Images/James Yu)

We're getting forests all wrong

Matthew Rozsa
Scene setter images outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Atlanta, GA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The limits of the CDC's power

Sam Whitehead, Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Getty Images)

Why the UN climate report gives me hope

Sarah Burch - Undark
Man wearing shorts holding genitals (Getty Images/peakSTOCK)

Tucker's "testicle tanning" quackery

Nicole Karlis
Diverse group of happy children getting on school bus (Getty Images/FatCamera)

Can the EPA make school buses greener?

Chad Small - Grist
Oil well pads operated by Continental Resources dot the wheat fields of eastern Montana north east of Sidney, Montana in Richland County in the Bakken oil formation. (William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images)

New study links racism and pollution

Julia Kane - Grist
(Getty/sequential5)

Post-LSD, everything is alive

Eric Schank
Marijuana leaves in the hands of a medical team (Getty Images/Kanjana Jorruang)

Autistic stoners unite!

Matthew Rozsa
African Gray Parrot (Getty Images/Enrique Aguirre Aves)

Norway is killing confiscated wildlife

Jonathan Moens - Undark
Large open air phosphogypsum waste storage (Getty Images/bbsferrari)

Alarming mountains of fertilizer waste

Bianca Fortis - Undark
Shot of a young man wearing a mask and boarding an airplane (Getty Images/Adene Sanchez)

Experts split on masks on planes

Nicole Karlis
Antibiotics are placed in petri dishes filled with bacteria. In the dish on the left the bacteria will not develop near the antibiotics. In the right petri dish, antibiotic resistant bacteria are growing. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Scientists record sounds from bacteria

Eric Schank
Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites and the cat which is the definitive host of parasites, concept (Getty Images/Dr_Microbe)

Cats are (indirectly) causing psychosis

Matthew Rozsa
Passengers with face masks wait in line at a Frontier Airlines ticket booth inside the main terminal at Long Island MacArthur Airport, in Ronkonkoma, New York on March 25, 2021. (Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images)

Mask mandate ruling is "a political act"

Nicole Karlis
Homes remain flooded as Texas moved toward recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey on September 4, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Hurricane Harvey still causing suffering

Lina Tran - Grist
Image of carbon capture technology which uses fans and filters to remove the green house gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The big fans suck in air from the atmosphere and take out the green house gas carbon dioxide. This technology can solve the problem of climate change and help with the climate crisis. (iStock/Getty Images/IGphotography)

We're not ready for CO2 pipelines

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
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