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Invasive mosquitoes on the move

Harriet Blair Rowan - KFF Health News
This Friday, Feb. 26, 2010 file photo shows the cruise ship Celebrity Mercury docked at the South Carolina State Ports Authority passenger terminal in downtown Charleston S.C., after passengers became sick with a stomach bug. (AP Photo/Mic Smith, File)

Preparing for sickness at sea

Bruce Horovitz - KFF Health News
Viral infection disease attacking cell abstract idea illustration (Getty Images/iStock)

We're approaching a common cold cure

Nicole Karlis
Traffic on the northbound and the southbound lanes of the Interstate 405 freeway near Los Angeles International Aiprort (Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

CA sues Trump admin over emissions rule

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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A gas flare at an oil well site on July 26, 2013 in Williston, North Dakota. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Berkeley triggers chain of anti-gas laws

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Students attend the climate strike at Philadelphia City Hall. Philadelphia was just one of the dozens of cities in which young people went on strike. (Amanda Marcotte)

On the ground at the climate strike

Nicole Karlis, Amanda Marcotte, Keith A. Spencer
Young demonstrators join the International Youth Climate Strike event at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 15, 2019 (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Scientists vow to join climate strikers

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
Fighting for a future: Young protesters at the Global Climate Strike in London on March 15, 2019. (Garry Knight/Flickr)

Kids demand action, will adults act?

Reynard Loki - Independent Media Institute
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Vaping or shooting, it's abuse

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
Flavored vaping solutions are shown in a window display at a vape and smoke shop, Monday Sept. 16, 2019, in New York. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing to enact a statewide ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes amid growing health concerns of vaping. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

A banned chemical is hiding in e-cigs

Nicole Karlis
This GOES East satellite image taken Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, at 10:30 a.m. EDT, shows Hurricane Florence in the Atlantic Ocean as it threatens the U.S. East Coast. (NOAA via AP)

5 ways we must adapt to climate change

Paola Rosa-Aquino - Grist
Patient with IV drip (Getty Images/iStock)

How opioid makers trick doctors

Dr. Gayle Woodson
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Uptick in Miracle Mineral Solution use

Hillel Aron - FairWarning
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Citizen science helps fill in the gaps

Tony Robert Walker - The Conversation
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Vaping by the numbers

Harriet Blair Rowan - KFF Health News
TOLEDO, OHIO - AUGUST 4: Algae washes ashore from Lake Erie at Maumee Bay State Park August 4, 2014 in Oregon, Ohio. Toledo, Ohio area residents were once again able to drink tap water after a two day ban due to algae related toxins. (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images) (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Lake Erie & Rights of Nature

Dana Zartner - The Conversation
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Registered nurses and supporters protest outside of a Kaiser Permanente facility in San Francisco, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

"The largest strike since 1997"

Shira Tarlo
Old man with a cup of tea (Getty Images/ jeangill)

80somethings on how to cope with aging

Katherine Esty
A defunct coal-fired power station near Johnson City, New York. (Duncan Rawlinson/Flickr)

Chubb will no longer invest in coal

Elana Sulakshana - Truthout
From left, Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., entrepreneur Andrew Yang, former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke and former Housing Secretary Julian Castro resume their debate Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, after a break during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC at Texas Southern University in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Climate change at the third debate

Paola Rosa-Aquino - Grist
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A White-crowned Sparrow sits on a branch on an early spring day in South-central, Alaska. (Getty Images/istockphoto)

"Colony Collapse" could affect birds

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
A buried section of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline emerges a few miles north of the Yukon River on July 21, 2002 in Fairbanks, Alaska. (Barry Williams/Getty Images)

Republicans push Alaska gas pipeline

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
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Recalls in name only?

Eli Wolfe - FairWarning
People wait for the trailhead at Glacier Point for a hike from the mountain at Yosemite National Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Everyone deserves a right to recreation

Matthew Rozsa
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