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Aerial view of a deforested area in the municipality of Melgaco, Para State, Brazil, on July 30, 2020. (TARSO SARRAF/AFP via Getty Images)

"Our planet is sending alarm signals"

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

Marijuana makes it marks on ballots

Justin Franz - KFF Health News
A nurse inoculates volunteer Ilya Dubrovin, 36, with Russia's new coronavirus vaccine in a post-registration trials at a clinic in Moscow on September 10, 2020. (Getty Images)

The major COVID vaccines, explained

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty Images)

Nuclear power’s big new idea is small

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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A participant holding a sign at the protest. Tenants and Housing Activists gathered at Maria Hernandez Park for a rally and march in the streets of Bushwick, demanding the city administration to cancel rent immediately as the financial situation for many New Yorkers remains the same, strapped for cash and out of work. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Designers aim to reimagine PPE

Hannah Thomasy - Undark
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)

Climate crisis is happening right now

Elizabeth Weil - ProPublica
Two women wear masks (personal protective equipment) and ride bicycles in Central Park with other riders (Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)

Exercise, diet more important than ever

Bernard J. Wolfson - KFF Health News
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)

Will forests burn themselves out?

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
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Donald Trump, about to go off (Illustration by Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

Talbot: Trump's a "walking time bomb"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
he Maria Fire burns on a hillside as it expands up to 8,000 acres on its first night on November 1, 2019 near Somis, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

"What a climate disaster looks like"

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
Donald Trump| A massive group of protesters sit on the ground at Foley Square (Getty Images/Salon)

Why "herd immunity" is a distraction

Marshall Auerback - Independent Media Institute
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)

Nightmare fire seasons: The new normal

Nicole Karlis
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The sky turns red over the town on January 04, 2020 in Bodalla, Australia. A state of emergency has been declared across NSW with dangerous fire conditions forecast for Saturday, as more than 140 bushfires continue to burn. (Brett Hemmings/Getty Images)

California’s red skies, explained

Nicole Karlis
Students sitting on a bench with markers for social distancing to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus (ROMEO GACAD/AFP via Getty Images)

Vaccinations head for recess

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez - KFF Health News
The Nebra Sky Disk stands in a glass display case (Anne Pollmann/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Bronze Age astronomy gets rewritten

Matthew Rozsa
Shot of a group of young people wearing masks (Getty Images)

Masks increase immunity to COVID: study

Matthew Rozsa
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Growing new neurons with CRISPR

Sahana Sitaraman - Massive Science
Man and Child with Large Watermelons. (Found Image Holdings/Getty Images)

The science of growing giant watermelons

Nicole Karlis
Bernie Sanders; Joe Biden; Beto O'Rourke (Getty/Salon)

Biden's rivals advising him on climate

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Donald Trump | Scientist synthesizing vaccine concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Is the nation ready for a COVID vaccine?

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
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Albert Einstein (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why physics needs another Einstein

Keith A. Spencer
The wildfire spreads on August 19, 2020 in San Mateo, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

How climate change fuels wildfires

Alexandria Herr - Grist
New Guinea singing dogs resting (Getty Images)

The song of the singing dog plays on

Matthew Rozsa
Students have had to adopt an E-learning program to finish the school year after all schools in the state were forced to cancel classes in an attempt to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Scott Olson/Getty)

When teachers become Big Brother

Victoria Theisen Homer
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