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Woman making the loser sign while wearing a medical face mask (Getty Images/Egoitz Bengoetxea Iguaran)

Our schadenfreude epidemic

Matthew Rozsa
View of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine vials (Niels Wenstedt/BSR Agency/Getty Images))

Big Pharma's specious vaccine patent war

Charlotte Kilpatrick
Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

A scientist’s life in the treetops

Sarah Boon - Undark
Faucet with Water Drip (Getty Images)

A California city's new climate pledge

Yvette Cabrera - Grist
Pro-choice protesters march outside the Texas State Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 in Austin, TX. (Sergio Flores For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

I got an abortion. In Texas. After SB8.

"Kat"
American flag and a corn field (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How corn took over America

Matthew Rozsa
Man Sticking Out Tongue (Getty Images/Laurent Dambreville/EyeEm)

Iffy therapies turn to the tongue

Christina Szalinski - Undark
A Mass Patriots for Freedom Rally was held on Beacon Street in front of the State House in Boston, with hundreds protesting against mandatory COVID-19 vaccines on September 17, 2021. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Inoculating against "mind parasites"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
An American flag is placed amidst the rubble on August 8, 2021 in Greenville, California. The Dixie Fire, which has incinerated more than 463,000 acres, is the second largest recorded wildfire in state history and remains only 21 percent contained. (Maranie R. Staab/Getty Images)

The Dixie Fire disaster and me

Jane Braxton Little - TomDispatch.com
Illustration of a solar sail above the Earth (MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The bleak hope of geoengineering

Matthew Rozsa
Houston Fire Department paramedics transport a woman with breathing difficulties to a hospital on September 14, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Texas' Harris County continues to see large number of Covid-19 hospitalizations due to the Delta variant surge in the state. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Why the delta surge may be the last

Nicole Karlis
Medical Mask On Red Background (Getty Images)

How to improve Biden's pandemic plan

Julia Raifman, Alexandra Skinner - The Conversation
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about voting rights at the National Constitution Center on July 13, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Biden and Congressional Democrats are set to make another push for sweeping voting rights legislation as Republican state legislatures across the country continue to pass controversial voting access laws. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Campaigners: Biden is pharma's "puppet"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
MIAMI, FLORIDA - SEPTEMBER 08: One Betta, a Dutch Shepherd, sniffs a mask for the scent of COVID-19 at Miami International Airport on September 08, 2021 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

How to train dogs to smell COVID

Nicole Karlis
Children playing in the park in face masks (Getty Images)

Can masks inhibit speech development?

Alex Hazlett - Undark
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the State Dining Room of the White House January 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden delivered remarks on his administration’s COVID-19 response, and signed executive orders and other presidential actions. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Biden takes climate change seriously

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Crimson Rosella, Platycercus elegans, at O'Reilly's Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia. (David Tipling/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Animals evolving as the climate changes

Matthew Rozsa
Saturn's moon Enceladus (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Is there life on one of Saturn's moons?

Nicole Karlis
Sick man with covid-19 symptoms in bed (Getty Images)

What to know about breakthrough COVID

Will Stone - KFF Health News
An Emergency Room RN tends to a patient in a hallway at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital on August 18, 2021 in Houston, Texas. (Getty Images)

COVID as seen from the emergency room

Jamie Herndon - Undark
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Jeff Bezos (Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

The bill corporate America is scared of

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
USA, California, Los Angeles, traffic on the freeway (Getty Images)

California's three new housing laws

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
A bustling hallway in the emergency department at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital due to coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Oceanside, New York (Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images)

New infections are driving variants

Vaughn Cooper, Lee Harrison - The Conversation
Scared man sitting with his eyes closed during coronavirus vaccination in a hospital (Getty Images)

COVID, not vaccines, causes infertility

Nicole Karlis
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