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American bullfrog floating at the surface of a farm pond in Kentucky USA. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"Health of all species" in danger

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
Lady Bird Lake at Congress Avenue in Austin. Since late July, parts of the lake have been off limits due to high concentrations of toxic "blue-green" algae. (Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune)

Toxic algae blooms in Texas

Chase Karacostas
PORTLAND, ME - OCTOBER 12: Acorns hang from high in an oak tree at Deering Oaks. (Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer) (Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer/Portland Press Herald Via Getty)

Tons of acorns? It must be a mast year

Emily Moran - The Conversation
The Boy Who Felt Too Much by Lorenz Wagner (Getty Images/Arcade)

The boy who felt too much

Lorenz Wagner
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Climate change activists take part in the international Strike for Climate protest in Los Angeles on May 24, 2019. (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

The health impacts of climate change

Farah Qaiser - Massive Science
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) attends a news conference to introduce legislation to transform public housing as part of the Green New Deal outside the U.S. Capitol November 14, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"Pure propaganda"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
(Getty/Shutterstock/Salon)

Health care transparency plan unveiled

Julie Appleby
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Ending fossil fuel finance

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams
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MRSA super bug colonies on blood agar plate. (Getty Images/Rodolfo Parulan Jr)

Antibiotic-resistant superbugs take over

Nicole Karlis
RFS Firefighters battle a spot fire on November 13, 2019 in Hillville, Australia. Catastrophic fire conditions - the highest possible level of bushfire danger - have eased across greater Sydney, Illawarra and Hunter areas thanks to a slight cool change, however dozens of bushfires are still burning. A state of emergency, as declared by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Monday, is still in effect, giving emergency powers to Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons and prohibiting fires across the state. (Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

Australia's cataclysmic wildfire season

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying 60 Starlink satellites on November 11, 2019 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Starlink constellation will eventually consist of thousands of satellites designed to provide world wide high-speed internet service. (Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Why Elon Musk is infuriating astronomers

Nicole Karlis
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How will Earth’s history remember us?

Rebecca Dzombak - Massive Science
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Grief, coping and internet searches

Elad Yom-Tom - MIT Press Reader
Views of the sunken road, known as the "bloody lane", on the Antietam battlefield, where over 5,500 soldiers lost their lives in four hours of combat on September 17 of 1862, as seen on March 26, 2019 in the farmland outside of the small village of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The Civil War battlefield has been preserved by the National Park Service as an historical site. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

From battlefields to parks

Todd Lookingbill, Peter Smallwood - The Conversation
(Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

March to extinction

Stephanie Jenouvrier - The Conversation
Waorani men and women participate in an assembly in ancestral Waorani territory, Pastaza, Ecuadorian Amazon. (Amazon Frontlines)

Fighting for our future

Mitch Anderson - Truthout
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Psychosis: early intervention is crucial

Brian Rinker - KFF Health News
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Why DST is bad for your health

Anisha Kalidindi - Massive Science
Dogs by Mark Alizart (Provided by publicist)

A philosopher unpacks the humble dog

Nicole Karlis
This Feb. 27, 2018, photo shows a seven cubit quantum device is seen at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Conventional computers process information as a stream of bits, each of which can be either a zero or a one in the binary language of computing. But quantum bits, known as qubits, can register zero and one simultaneously. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

The race to quantum supremacy

Prabir Purkayastha - Independent Media Institute
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Unnatural Selection (Netflix)

"Unnatural Selection" misses the mark

Jonathan R. Latham
(Photo by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images)

New health concerns over synthetic turf

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
In this Nov. 17, 2016 picture Alma Deutscher plays piano during a rehearsal in Vienna, Austria. Alma Deutscher is a composer, virtuoso pianist and concert violinist who wrote her first sonata five years ago and whose first full opera will have its world premiere next month. All of which is special only because she 11. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Do music lessons make kids smarter?

Christoph Droesser - Undark
In this photo taken Tuesday,March 11, 2014, pantry cook Alicia Palenyy uses her bare-hands to put cheese on a salad at the Hock Farm restaurant in Sacramento, Calif. Under a bill signed last year by Gov. Jerry Brown, chefs and bartenders in California must keep bare hands off food going straight to the plate or the drink glass, and must use gloves or kitchen utensils such as tongs. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) (AP)

Salad bars an easy target for bioterror

Ana Santos Rutschman - The Conversation
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