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A healthcare worker prepares to transport a patient on a stretcher into an ambulance at Life Care Center of Kirkland on February 29, 2020 in Kirkland, Washington. Dozens of staff and residents at Life Care Center of Kirkland are reportedly exhibiting coronavirus-like symptoms, with two confirmed cases of (COVID-19) associated with the nursing facility reported so far. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

Coronavirus spread underestimated in WA

Nicole Karlis
Clubshell mussel. (Stihler Craig, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Public domain)

Wildlife service kills endangered mussel

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
A rat eats on the platform at the Herald Square subway station in New York City on July 4 2017. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Rat control starts with changing habits

Michael H. Parsons - The Conversation
(Shutterstock/science photo)

The solution to soaring drug prices?

Vishal Khetpal - Undark
Passengers wear face masks to protect against the spread of the Coronavirus as they arrive on a flight from Asia at Los Angeles International Airport, California, on January 29, 2020. (Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)

Problems with U.S. testing procedures

Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
Wildflowers cover this hills of the Tremblor Range in Carrizo Plain National Monument near Taft, California during a wildflower "super bloom," April 12, 2017. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

AB 342: Saving public lands in the West?

Casey O'Brien - The Revelator
(AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

Scientists try spray-on plant vaccines

Fabiola De Marchi - Massive Science
Protest posters in the village of Harmondsworth, which was under threat of demolition because of plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport on February 27, 2020 in London, England. (Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

UK court blocks Heathrow expansion

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Julie Johnson of Utah says she explored the possibility of becoming an egg donor but ultimately changed her mind. Then the clinic turned on her. (James Roh for Undark)

Would-be egg donors face threats, bills

Alison Motluk - Undark
Janelle Monae, from left, Taraji P. Henson, and Octavia Spencer pose with Katherine Johnson, seated, backstage at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

7 lessons from Katherine Johnson's life

Della Dumbaugh - The Conversation
(Gary John Norman/Getty Images)

Freecycling instead of buying new

April M. Short - Independent Media Institute
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue speaks at an Ag Policy Summit during a visit Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019 to Decatur, Ill. Perdue has sought to assuage farmers' fears of financial problems after China halted purchases of U.S. farm products in an escalating trade war. (AP Photo/John O'Connor)

Trump ag sec wants carbon pricing

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
A power generating windmill towers above a nuclear power plant operated by Exelon on June 14, 2018 near Marseilles, Illinois (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump rails against wind turbines, again

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Michael Bloomberg and Bernie Sanders (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Is a doctor's note enough in 2020?

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
The Ebola Virus and the Coronavirus looked at through a microscope (Getty Images)

Inside COVID-19's bizarre genetics

Nicole Karlis
A team of nurses with Livio Health Group took the vital signs of Anthony Nichols 52, at the large homeless camp Monday September 24, 2018 in Minneapolis, MN. Nichols said that he has a heart condition and had not been taking his medicine; he was later transported to local hospital by ambulance. Nichols said that he had been staying at the camp for only two days. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Can you afford a coronavirus test?

Nicole Karlis
Uber driver driving a logo branded car (Michal Fludra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Uber, Lyft are not eco-friendly: study

Nicole Karlis
Climate activists protest Chase Bank's continued funding of the fossil fuel industry by setting up a tripod-blockade in midtown Manhattan. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Economists warn of climate crisis threat

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
(Getty Images/istockphoto)

Future of humanity: smaller families

Carter Dillard - Independent Media Institute
(emneves/Getty Images)

The future of North American winters

Olivia Box - Massive Science
(Tanya Punti, via Shutterstock)

"On a knife edge"

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
A picture taken on July 4, 2019 shows bees collecting nectar on a sunflower in a field in Weisskirchen, Germany. (Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images)

How "bee-washing" misleads consumers

Lila Westreich - The Conversation
Debris lies around a damaged home in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian on September 10, 2019 in Grand Bahama, Bahamas. The official death toll has risen in the time since to 50 people, but authorities have cautioned that number is likely to rise significantly as workers make their way through the ruins. (Alejandro Granadillo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

How the next recession will start

Igor Derysh
(Chalisa Thammapatanakul/EyeEm/Getty Images)

How accurate is "edutainment"?

Dan Garisto - Undark
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