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Polluting clouds of exhaust fumes rise in the air (Getty Images)

CO2 levels hit a 3 million year high

Nicole Karlis
OxyContin pill bottles scattered in front of protestors of the opioid crisis. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The opioid crisis in perspective

Mattea Kramer - TomDispatch.com
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler (Getty Images/Salon)

Scientific transparency as a weapon

David Michaels, Bernard D. Goldstein
(AP/Matthew Brown)

The winds of deadly pollution

Miyo McGinn - Grist
Distressed young man surrounded by empty cups of coffee (Getty Images)

Does coffee really cause anxiety?

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/Luke_Franzen)

Mental illness behind bars

Nick Chrastil - Undark
(Getty Images/westend61)

Like working at an oil refinery

Lupita D. Montoya, Aaron Lamplugh - The Conversation
(Getty/6okean)

Trump flip-flops on e-cigarette stance

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
Candida auris fungi, emerging multidrug resistant fungus, 3D illustration (Getty Images/istockphoto)

Antibiotic-resistant fungi?

Cornelius (Neil) J. Clancy - The Conversation
(Getty/KatarzynaBialasiewicz)

Can AI help diagnose depression?

Alejandra Canales - Massive Science
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AP/Cliff Owen)

Republicans once liked Green New Deal

Kate Yoder - Grist
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 08: A pedestrian smokes an e-cigarette on November 08, 2019 in San Francisco, California. The Center for Disease Control (C.D.C.) has reported that an additive sometimes used in vaping products known as vitamin E acetate may be the cause of a national outbreak of e-cigarette-related lung injuries that has been linked to dozens of deaths. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Vitamin E and vaping injuries

Cosby Stone - The Conversation
(George Frey/Getty Images)

Big power distributor favors coal

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduces the Medicare for All Act of 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

It's time for true Medicare for All

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Inside Purdue Pharma’s media playbook

David Armstrong - ProPublica
This is an artist's concept of a plume of water vapor thought to be ejected off the frigid, icy surface of the Jovian moon Europa, located about 500 million miles (800 million kilometers) from the sun. Spectroscopic measurements from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope led scientists to calculate that the plume rises to an altitude of 125 miles (201 kilometers) and then it probably rains frost back onto the moon's surface. Previous findings already pointed to a subsurface ocean under Europa's icy crust. (NASA/ESA/K. Retherford/SWRI)

Jupiter's moon Europa teems with water

Nicole Karlis
A nurse prepares a flu shot. (AP/David Goldman)

The high cost of the "free" flu shot

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
Venice suffers worst flooding for 50 years (Anna Henly / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

The future of the past

Kate Yoder - Grist
Saturn with moons (Getty Images)

An Earth-like moon orbiting Saturn

Nicole Karlis
A woman using an electronic cigarette (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

E-cig lobbyists may have swayed Trump

Nicole Karlis
(Ashley Cooper/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images)

Why hydropower can be bad for climate

Miyo McGinn - Grist
(George Frey/Getty Images)

The greatest scam in history

Naomi Oreskes - TomDispatch.com
(Getty/HAZEMMKAMAL)

A regulatory haze

Shefali Luthra, Chaseedaw Giles - KFF Health News
Neptune's inner moons Naiad and Thalassa enable them to avoid each other as they race around the planet. (NASA)

Neptune's strange, "dancing" moons

Nicole Karlis
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