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White plastic bag caught up in branches and billowing in the breeze. Plastic bags are wind-distributed, which explains why they are widespread in the London (UK) countryside. (Getty Images/Whiteway)

NY's plastic bag plan survives pandemic

Angely Mercado - Grist
U.S. President Donald Trump (C) reacts as he stands with his family members after delivering his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination on the South Lawn of the White House August 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump gave the speech in front of 1500 invited guests. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump excludes US from WHO vaccine pact

Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
Exterior of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) headquarters (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

Trump admin's unlikely vaccine promise

Matthew Rozsa
Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other (Getty Images)

The missing type of black hole — found

Nicole Karlis
A healthcare worker tends to a patient in the Covid-19 Unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas on July 2, 2020. (MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)

Doctors warn against herd immunity plan

Nicole Karlis
US President Donald Trump leaves after speaking to the press in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 3, 2020. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's "mini-stroke" mystery

Matthew Rozsa
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn addresses the media during a press conference in James S. Brady Briefing Room at the White House on on August 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump announced that the Food and Drug Administration is issuing an emergency authorization for blood plasma as a coronavirus treatment The move by the FDA comes after President Trump accused the FDA of slow-walking the therapy to harm his reelection chances. (Pete Marovich/Getty Images)

FDA head wants to fast-track vaccine

Matthew Rozsa
Tammy Bruce (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Twitter)

The "6%" myth that the right is pushing

Matthew Rozsa
Firefighters light backfires as they try to contain the Thomas wildfire which continues to burn in Ojai, California on December 9, 2017. Brutal winds that fueled southern California's firestorm finally began to ease Saturday, giving residents and firefighters hope for respite as the destructive toll of multiple blazes came into focus. / AFP PHOTO / MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

Fighting megafires on the frontlines

Elizabeth Weil - ProPublica
Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Offline refineries will emit pollution

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
mage of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy, also known as PHL 293B, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2011, before the disappearance of the massive star. Located some 75 million light-years away, the galaxy is too far away for astronomers to clearly resolve its individual stars, but in observations done between 2001 and 2011, they detected the signatures of the massive star. These signatures were not present in more recent data. (NASA/ESA/Hubble/J. Andrews/University of Arizona))

Looking for extraterrestrial viruses

Jordan McKaig - Massive Science
A homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic ( Araya Diaz/Getty Images)

Wildfire smoke worsens homeless crisis

Nicole Karlis
Small girl measuring heart beats to her sick grandfather with a toy stethoscope. (Getty Images)

Don't fear (discussing) the reaper

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Illustration of the Earth, Moon and Sun showing a passing comet (Getty Images)

How bacteria survives in a vacuum

Matthew Rozsa
People practice social distancing in white circles in Domino Park in Williamsburg as the city continues Phase 4 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on August 20, 2020 in New York City. The fourth phase allows outdoor arts and entertainment, sporting events without fans and media production. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

The debate over COVID-19 distancing

Joanne Silberner - Undark
Members of the public walk past a COVID-19 social distancing display on 21st August 2020 in Slough, United Kingdom. Slough has been listed by Public Health England (PHE) and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) as an area of concern for COVID-19 following a rise in positive coronavirus cases over the last two weeks. (Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Is 6 feet enough social distance?

Matthew Rozsa
Hurricane Laura is seen here approaching the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday. The image is taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. (NASA)

What it's like flying inside a hurricane

Nicole Karlis
The sky over a solar tower of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory under the Russian Academy of Sciences, located in the village of Nauchny, Bakhchisaray District, southwestern Crimea. (Sergei MalgavkoTASS via Getty Images)

Astronomers warn: "the sky has changed'"

Nicole Karlis
Federal officers use tear gas and other crowd dispersal munitions on protesters outside the Multnomah County Justice Center on July 17, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Federal law enforcement agencies attempt to intervene as protests continue in Portland. (Mason Trinca/Getty Images)

What Portland protesters were breathing

Matthew Rozsa
Born on July 17, 1819, Eunice Newton Foote was an amateur scientist and a women's rights campaigner who was friends with American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Foote's experiments with atmospheric gases and her insights about past climate were overlooked for more than a century. (Drawing by Carlyn Iverson/NOAA/Climate.gov)

The suffragette-scientist

Dawn Starin
A patient infected by the covid-19 caused by the novel coronavirus receives treatment at the intensive care unit of a hospital in the southwestern Tunisian town of Gabes on August 26, 2020, as cases of infection surge there. (FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images)

Coronavirus reinfection is possible

Matthew Rozsa
A dog and dolphin enjoy a swim together in the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat. (David Silverman/Getty Images)

Here's which animals can get coronavirus

Matthew Rozsa
Heavy smoke from nearby wild fires covers the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco on August 20, 2020 as seen from the Marin Headlands in Sausalito, California. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

Why Cali's wildfires keep getting worse

Nicole Karlis
Asteroid (Getty Images)

Election Day asteroid: Harmless!

Nicole Karlis
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