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A military vehicle with spaced armour moves past servicemen during tactical drills for Ukrainian Interior Ministry units to practice interoperability while defending a city, urban combat tactics and response to the aftermath of the hostilities in a city, Prypiat, the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Kyiv Region, northern Ukraine. (Volodymyr Tarasov/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Radiation fears from occupied Chernobyl

Matthew Rozsa
Senior man with dogs and cat on his lap on bench (Getty Images/Jevtic)

Why having a pet is healthy for seniors

Nicole Karlis
A jogger makes his way along a flooded Sausalito/Mill Valley bike path during the "King Tide" in Mill Valley, California on Jananury 3, 2022. - "King Tides" occur when the Earth, moon, and sun align in orbit to produce unusually high water levels and can cause local tidal flooding. Over time, sea level rise is raising the height of tidal systems. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Why sea levels started rising in 1860s

Eric Schank
A view of Gazproms Amur Gas Processing Plant (Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty Images)

Europe’s next climate challenge

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Two prescription bottles with pain pills spilling out of them (Getty Images)

Reconsidering opioid treatment

Maia Szalavitz - Undark
Gritter maintenance tractor spreading de icing salt on asphalt road (Getty Images/Lubo Ivanko)

Road salt is polluting our water supply

Eric Schank
Baby playing with hanging mobile (Getty Images/Guido Mieth)

Misinformation swirls around kids, masks

Nicole Karlis
Semi Truck on I-5 (Getty Images)

Truck pollution standards to be updated

Julia Kane - Grist
People demonstrate with placards at an emergency meeting of the Brevard County, Florida School Board in Viera to discuss whether face masks in local schools should be mandatory. An executive order signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis banning mask mandates in schools was thrown out by a Florida judge on Friday. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Covid still threatens millions

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Shadow of a tick on a leaf (Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Deer-tick virus could be next epidemic

Matthew Rozsa
Harvard University Professor E.O. Wilson in his office at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. USA. Professor Wilson is a biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author. He is considered to be the world's leading authority on the study of ants. (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)

New evidence about E.O. Wilson and race

Michael Schulson - Undark
Over the counter Allergy relief medication (Jeff Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Long COVID may have an inexpensive cure

Nicole Karlis
A man drinks water from the water bottle during a hot weather, as the heat wave conditions prevailed in Northern India with the maximum temperature settling at 38.9 degrees Celsius, five notches above the normal, on April 3, 2016 in New Delhi, India. (Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

The world's poorest bear burden of heat

Lina Tran - Grist
Yong girl leaning back, distracted during at-home learning on computer (Getty Images/Jamie Grill)

Pandemic spurs rise in ADHD diagnoses

Eric Schank
Oil pipelines, pumping rigs, and electrical transmission lines dot the landscape along California's "Petroleum Highway" (Highway 33) running along the northwestern side of the San Joaquin Valley on April 24, 2020, near McKittrick, California. (George Rose/Getty Images)

Maintenance a driver of carbon emissions

Eve Andrews - Grist
Glasses half-full and half-empty (Getty Images/wakila)

How to think your way out of stress

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A group of women laughing at their smartphone (Getty Images/Lucy Lambriex)

Why we love "humilitainment"

Matthew Rozsa
Demonstrators gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, a case about a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, on December 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Anti-abortion Republicans face roadblock

Nick Ehli - KFF Health News
Empty prison hallway (Getty Images)

COVID inmates die asking for release

LJ Dawson - KFF Health News
Detonation of Nuclear Device (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

What would nuclear war look like?

Matthew Rozsa
People tour the Arroyo Seco Tiny Home Village in Highland Park. The now completed 6.8-acre site within Arroyo Seco Park is the largest tiny home village in the United States, providing 117 housing units and 224 non-congregate beds as transitional residences for people experiencing homelessness in the Highland Park community. (Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

Tiny-homes as a solution to homelessness

Giles Bruce - KFF Health News
Smoke from the car exhaust (Getty Images/hirun)

Lifetime cost of owning a car: $1M

Matthew Rozsa
Yellow-Headed Blackbird (Getty Images/Brian Reinke)

Birds falling from the sky in Mexico

Nicole Karlis
Anti-vaccine rally protesters hold signs outside of Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, on June 26, 2021 (MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images)

Poll: The right losing faith in science

Eric Schank
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