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Worker Observing Processing of Waste at Recycling Facility (Getty Images/AzmanJaka)

EPA rejects plastics industry’s math

Lisa Song - ProPublica
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz introduces Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) during a campaign rally at First Avenue on January 17, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Unspoken success story: Walz's sobriety

Sean Daniels
Steve Silberman, author of Neuro Tribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity signing session during the launching of his book at the UN Headquarters in New York. (Luiz Rampelotto/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Autism ally Steve Silberman dead at 66

Matthew Rozsa
Workers unload a shipment of polio vaccines provided with support from UNICEF to the Gaza Strip through the Karm Abu Salem crossing, also known as Kerem Shalom, at a depot belonging to Gaza's health ministry on August 25, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel's war in Gaza poses polio risks

Matthew Rozsa
Two hippos with hippo calf on riverbed (Hoberman/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Namibia urges elephant and hippo hunting

Matthew Rozsa
A house destroyed by the sea on the island of Carti Sugtupu, in the Indigenous Guna Yala Comarca, Panama, in the Caribbean Sea, is seen on August 30, 2023. (LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images)

UN chief warns of rising sea levels

Matthew Rozsa
Mosquito drinking blood (Getty Images/iiievgeniy)

How deadly is "triple E" mosquito virus?

Nicole Karlis
Parents looking burnout and frustrated and stressed. (Getty Images/filadendron)

Parental stress is now a health crisis

Nicole Karlis
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule sits on Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center ahead of the Polaris Dawn Mission in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 28, 2024. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Rocket failure grounds SpaceX

Griffin Eckstein
An employee prepares a dose of Comirnaty Omicron XBB 1.5 Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 at a pharmacy in Ajaccio, on October 5, 2023, during a new COVID-19 vaccination campagin on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. (PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA/AFP via Getty Images)

Equity program for COVID vaccines ending

Nicole Karlis
A family physician and her resident perform an ultrasound on a 25-year-old woman the day before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at the Center for Reproductive Health clinic on June 23, 2022 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

No law can capture abortion complexity

Josephine Urbina
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks in Phoenix, Arizona, August 23, 2024. (OLIVIER TOURON/AFP via Getty Images)

Feds urged to investigate RFK whale tale

Matthew Rozsa
Man milking a cow (Getty Images/mgstudyo)

Farmworkers not protected from bird flu

Rae Ellen Bichell - KFF Health News
Man sorting Snow Crabs on boat, USA, Alaska Bering Sea (Getty Images/Kim Steele)

Climate change is killing off crabs

Matthew Rozsa
Person at a tap filling a glass of water (Getty Images/Catherine Falls Commercial)

Should you drink fluoridated water?

Matthew Rozsa
A young girl is waiting for a doctor in a waiting room at the Hospital (Getty Images/Julia Gomina)

Long COVID is a crisis for kids

Nicole Karlis
Small girl having a lice nit treatment (Getty Images/Richard Bailey)

Why lice is no longer a crisis at school

Nicole Karlis
Rey Espino (left) and Croll Envieh, who both worked on the construction of the solar farm, walk past rows of panels on land leased at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. (Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

SCOTUS already slowing climate progress

Akielly Hu - Grist
Dr. Anthony Fauci (Al Drago - Pool/Getty Images)

Fauci recovering from West Nile virus

Kelly McClure
Cockroach in the bathroom sink (Getty Images/ArLawKa AungTun)

How to beat a cockroach infestation

Matthew Rozsa
Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz celebrates with his son Gus Walz (C-L), wife Gwen Walz (R) and daughter Hope Walz (L) after accepting the Democratic vice presidential nomination on stage during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 21, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The backlash to Gus Walz's bullies

Matthew Rozsa
Sperm whale and sound-waves, illustration. (Getty Images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Maybe don't use AI to talk with whales

Levi Stallings
Medium Mylodon Cave or Cueva del Milodon Natural Monument a leading attraction in the Natales region, Patagonia, southern (Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The demise of Darwin’s giant sloth

Nikolas Kozloff
Health workers prepare an isolation ward for mpox patients at the Police and Services hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on August 20, 2024. (ABDUL MAJEED/AFP via Getty Images)

Deadly mpox strain detected in Thailand

Matthew Rozsa
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