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A Cal Fire firefighter monitors the Kincaide Fire as it burns a hillside on October 24, 2019 in Geyserville, California. Fueled by high winds, the Kincaide Fire has burned over 7,000 acres in a matter of hours and has prompted evacuations in the Geyserville area. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images))

Farmworkers face health risks in fires

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
Intense flames driven by extreme drought conditions, wind and hot weather sweep over a remote section of the San Bernardino National Forest during the Blue Cut Fire on August 18, 2016 near Wrightwood, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

“This is what climate change looks like"

Matthew Rozsa
A new SPHERE/VLT image of Hygiea, which could be the Solar System’s smallest dwarf planet yet. As an object in the main asteroid belt, Hygiea satisfies right away three of the four requirements to be classified as a dwarf planet: it orbits around the Sun, it is not a moon and, unlike a planet, it has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit. The final requirement is that it have enough mass that its own gravity pulls it into a roughly spherical shape. This is what VLT observations have now revealed about Hygiea. (ESO/P. Vernazza et al./MISTRAL algorithm (ONERA/CNRS))

Is Hygiea the new Pluto?

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/HAZEMMKAMAL)

The vaping crisis is real

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
FILE - In this May 11, 2003, file photo, Microbiologist Ruth Bryan works with BG nerve agent simulant in Class III Glove Box in the Life Sciences Test Facility at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. The specialized airtight enclosure is also used for hands-on work with anthrax and other deadly agents. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is investigating what the Pentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores to government and commercial laboratories in as many as nine states, as well as one overseas, that expected to receive dead spores. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File) (AP)

Kate Yoder
Intense flames driven by extreme drought conditions, wind and hot weather sweep over a remote section of the San Bernardino National Forest during the Blue Cut Fire on August 18, 2016 near Wrightwood, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Why everyone should care about wildfires

Nicole Karlis
Floodwaters associated with Hurricane Matthew surround homes and an ambulance on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, in Lumberton, N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory said Thursday the number of power outages was down to about 55,000, from a high of nearly 900,000 when the storm hit. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco) (AP)

If facts won't work, what will?

Kate Yoder - Grist
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Acid rain, that ’70s scourge, comes back

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
(Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images)

New potential vaping hazards scrutinized

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez - KFF Health News
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The problem with "dysbiosis"

Elizabeth Preston - Undark
A Green Crowned Brilliant is pictured at a Hummingbird feeding station on January 15, 2016 in Alajuela, Costa Rica. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

How many genes do you really need?

Jessica M. Velez, Alison Gerken, Amey Redkar - The Conversation
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E-cigarette waste raises concerns

Eli Wolfe - FairWarning
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How gamers are one-upping nature

Luyi Cheng - Massive Science
A Cal Fire firefighter monitors the Kincaide Fire as it burns a hillside on October 24, 2019 in Geyserville, California. Fueled by high winds, the Kincaide Fire has burned over 7,000 acres in a matter of hours and has prompted evacuations in the Geyserville area. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images))

Max Moritz, Faith Kearns
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Goodbye, DARE

Mike Ludwig - Truthout
(Getty Images/istockphoto)

Science has a garbage problem

Simone Eizagirre - Massive Science
A layer of pollution can be seen hovering over Los Angeles, California (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

Around 125 anti-fracking activists demonstrated at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on January 10, 2012. (ProgressOhio/Flickr)

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Residents say no to mosquito spraying

Michael Schulson - Undark
Climate activists demonstrate in Washington, D.C. in 2015. One displays a sign admonishing ExxonMobil for its complicity in furthering the climate apocalypse. (Johnny Silvercloud/Flickr)

ExxonMobil bankrolling climate deniers

Elliott Negin - Truthout
Disturbing AMSR (Getty Images/Salon)

Inside the world of spooky ASMR videos

Nicole Karlis
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 Girl Scouts are saving wild bees

Rachel Ramirez - Grist
Rats in a University of Richmond lab have learned to drive in little cars. (Kelly Lambert/University of Richmond)

Lab rats relaxed after driving tiny cars

Nicole Karlis
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