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Covid-19 Delta Variant concept (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

How scary is the delta variant?

Nicole Karlis
Bootleg Fire burns in Bly, Oregon. The Bootleg Fire has has spread over 212,377 acres, making it the largest among the dozens of blazes burning in the western U.S. fueled by record temperatures and drought. The extreme drought-hit western United States braced for more wildfire destruction July 16, 2021 as efforts to contain a vast blaze scorching southern Oregon failed to progress, and dangerous dry lightning storms were forecast in California. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A wildfire is making its own weather

Matthew Rozsa
A flooded street after Hurricane Sandy. (Getty/jonathansloane)

Flood me twice, shame on FEMA?

Jena Brooker - Grist
Visitors hike the Vernal Fall trail in Yosemite National Park, California. Yosemite is among California's biggest tourist destinations. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Don’t hike so close to me

Sarah Reed, Courtney Larson, Jeremy Dertien - The Conversation
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A Juul vaping system with accessory pods in varying flavors (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Did Juul pay for junk science?

Jon Skolnik
Earth in a trash bag (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

29 years to save the ocean from plastic

Matthew Rozsa
Hubble Space Telescope (Getty Images/James Benet)

Hubble stops, and starts again

Nicole Karlis
A 5th instar Rhodnius pallescens (Kissing Bug) sitting on a hand, engorged after consuming the blood of nearby fauna in Panama. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer K Peterson, PhD / jennipeterson.com)

Lifting the curtain on Chagas disease

Emily Cataneo - Undark
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Felix Auto Repair in Salton Sea, California on March 2, 2020. (Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Why record highs aren't meaningful

Peter W. Reiners
A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

A climate view from California

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
The Joy Of Sweat by Sarah Everts (Photo illustration by Salon/Joerg Emes/W. W. Norton & Company)

Why sweating is a human "superpower"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Coastal village during a storm, UK. (Getty images/Peter Cade)

The Moon is scheming against us

Matthew Rozsa
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Rising sea levels, conceptual (Getty Images)

Coastal economies at risk from tides

Renee Collini - The Conversation
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Fewer adults want children — a lot fewer

Jennifer Watling Neal, Zachary Neal - The Conversation
Person's hands holding prison bars (Getty Images)

Cutting child poverty is tough on crime

Gwen Adshead
Microplastic in spoon (Getty Images/Olena Sakhnenko)

Microplastics: An explainer

Matthew Rozsa
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A pigeon flies over a Exxon mobil gas station (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images)

Companies lobby against emission targets

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Britney Spears attends the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards Arrivals at Madison Square Garden on August 28, 2016 in New York City. (Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

The legal bias against mental illness

Matthew Rozsa
U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to speak 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)

Biden caught in abortion politics debate

Julie Rovner - KFF Health News
Bears stand by a wall at a bear farm of Guizhentang Pharmaceutical Co Ltd on February 24, 2012 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province of China. The Guizhentang Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, which makes medicine using bile extracted from live bears, opened one of its bear farms to the media on Wednesday, to quell growing criticism. (Photo by Getty Images (Stringer/Getty Images)

Medicinal animals in modern China

Rachel Love Nuwer - Undark
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Members of the Missouri National Guard work to administer the Covid-19 vaccine during a vaccination event on February 11, 2021 at the Jeff Vander Lou Senior living facility in St Louis, Missouri. (Michael Thomas/Getty Images)

Why COVID cases are rising in Missouri

Alex Henderson - Alternet
A young woman receives her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine (Alberto Ortega/Europa Press via Getty Images)

The J&J vaccine's side effects explained

Matthew Rozsa
Building of the company Johnson and Johnson | Vaccine (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

J&J has muscle against Delta variant

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Great White Shark cruises through the ocean displaying its power and grace that many people fear. (Getty Images/Cat Gennaro)

Coexisting with sharks in Cape Cod

Sarah Sax - Undark
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