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Abortion rights advocates participate in a protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on June 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Suburban women do care about abortion

Nicole Karlis
A baby is treated in an intensive care unit at Al-Awda Hospital as hospitals in Gaza run out of generator fuel due to Israeli attacks and blockade in Jabalia, Gaza on June 28, 2024. (Khalil Ramzi Alkahlut/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Doctors protest DNC, decry war on Gaza

Matthew Rozsa
Colonization of distant planet (Getty Images/gremlin)

Astronomers warn against colonialism

Mary-Jane Rubenstein - The Conversation
Mobile Abortion Clinic (Photo courtesy of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers)

Mobile abortion clinics are "ingenious"

Nicole Karlis
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Bumblebee (Bombus) pollinating a flower in Markham, Ontario, Canada, on August 27, 2022. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Climate getting too hot for bumblebees

Matthew Rozsa
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic nominee for president, addresses a rally to kick off their campaign at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pa., on Tuesday, August 6, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Harris-Walz stand out on health care

Stephanie Armour - KFF Health News
Wildfire continues as aerial and ground firefighting teams try to extinguish the fire that broke out Salihli and Golmarmara districts of Manisa, Turkiye on August 17, 2024. (Ahmet Bayram/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Avoiding 1.5º of global warming unlikely

Matthew Rozsa
Indigenous leaders and their water-protector allies protest the Canadian oil-and-gas-transport company Enbridge, who are expanding the controversial Line 3 pipeline. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Tim Walz's climate record is complicated

Matthew Rozsa
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Sea stars on ocean floor (Getty Images/Patrick J. Endres)

We’re protecting the ocean wrong

David Shiffman - The Revelator
Most of the seafloor explored during Dive 07 of the 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration was covered with these manganese nodules, the subject of the Deep Sea Ventures pilot test nearly five decades ago. (Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration.)

Mining deep sea despite unknowns

Gautama Mehta - Grist
MONTPELIER, VT - JULY, 11: Flooding in downtown Montpelier, Vermont on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Vermont has been under a State of Emergency since Sunday evening as heavy rains continued through Tuesday morning causing flooding across the state. ((Photo by John Tully for The Washington Post via Getty Images))

Prosecute Big Oil, federal govt urged

Matthew Rozsa
Melancholic long-hair cat lying (Getty Images/Rafa Elias)

Cats seem to grieve deaths of other pets

Matthew Rozsa
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Health workers monitor Mpox patients at the Mpox treatment centre of the Nyiragongo general reference hospital, north of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 16, 2024. (GUERCHOM NDEBO / Contributor (Getty Images))

Mpox outbreak is a health equity problem

Nicole Karlis
DNA molecule (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Editing fetal genomes is on the horizon

Julia Brown - The Conversation
Signage outside the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center in St. Louis, Missouri. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

The campaign to gut Planned Parenthood

Rachana Pradhan - KFF Health News
Obstetrician examining pregnant woman in hospital (Getty Images/Halfpoint Images)

Abortion bans change care in blue states

Nicole Karlis
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A registered nurse prepares to administer an intradermal monkeypox vaccine to a person at a vaccination site setup in Tropical Park by Miami-Dade County and Nomi Health on August 15, 2022 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected

Wolfgang Preiser, Cheryl Baxter, Jean Nachega - The Conversation
Engineer at recycling center (Getty Images/Pramote Polyamate)

When “recyclable” isn't truly recyclable

Lisa Song - ProPublica
Choices (Getty Images/kibrick)

Don’t ask AI life-and-death decisions

Samantha Kleinberg - Undark
Ontocetus posti (Courtesy of Jaime Bran)

New species of ancient walrus discovered

Matthew Rozsa
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Pregnant woman in a medical exam room looking at her ultrasound pictures (Getty Images/adamkaz)

Abortion exceptions are a "farce"

Nicole Karlis
Martian landscape with lakes, water (Getty Images/gremlin)

Water on Mars found buried deep

Matthew Rozsa
Friends running together in a park (Getty Images/Thomas Barwick)

Why exercising to lose weight backfires

Matthew Rozsa
A copper IUD, intrauterine device (VALENTINE CHAPUIS/AFP via Getty Images)

IUD update is progress for female pain

Nicole Karlis
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