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A Cal Fire firefighter monitors a burning home as the Camp Fire moves through the area on November 9, 2018 in Magalia, California. (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Fires pose new risks for firefighters

Barbara Feder Ostrov - KFF Health News
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - AUGUST 24: A smoky haze obstructs the view of the San Francisco skyline on August 24, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Smoke from western wildfires has settled in the San Francisco Bay Area and has pushed the air quality into unhealthy levels. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

New West: Smoke in sky, purifier in home

Mark Kreidler - KFF Health News
at Chipotle's "Cultivate San Francisco" a culinary celebration in Golden Gate Park on June 8, 2013 in San Francisco, California. (Steve Jennings/Getty Images)

"Compostable" bowl isn't biodegradable

Molly Enking - Grist
FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2006 file photo, a doctor holds a vial of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil in his Chicago office. A national estimate suggests that nearly half of U.S. men have mostly silent infections caused by the sexually-transmitted human papilloma virus, and that 1 in 4 has strains linked with several cancers. The study was released Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) (AP)

Federal experts' confusing advice on HPV

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
Frank Gehrke, right, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program for the Department of Water Resources, places the snow survey tube on a scale held by Nic Enstice, of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy while doing the manual snow survey at Phillips Station, Thursday, March 30, 2017, near Echo Summit, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) (AP)

More snow droughts with climate change

Adrienne Marshall - The Conversation
In this photo taken May 19, 2015, Judith Chase Gilbert, of Arlington, Va., is loaded into a PET scanner by Nuclear Medicine Technologist J.R. Aguilar at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. Gilbert shows no signs of memory problems but volunteered for a new kind of scan as part of a study peeking into healthy brains to check for clues about Alzheimer's disease. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Two encouraging Alzheimer's studies

Steven DeKosky, Todd Golde - The Conversation
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Why Boomers are binge-drinking more

Nicole Karlis
FILE - This Feb. 20, 2015 file photo, photo shows an arrangement of peanuts in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File) (AP)

Parents turning to new allergy treatment

Esther Landhuis - Undark
Aerial view of the Transamazonica Road (BR-230) near Medicilandia, Para State, Brazil on March 13, 2019. - According to the NGO Imazon, deforestation in the Amazonia increased in a 54% in January, 2019 (Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images)

CA's new deforestation-free policy

Abrahm Lustgarten - ProPublica
(Getty/luoman)

Earth is losing its filtration system

Amanda Marcotte
FILE - In this June 13, 2012 file photo, Asian carp, jolted by an electric current from a research boat, jump from the Illinois River near Havana, Ill. An effort is under way to reintroduce alligator gar into lakes, rivers and backwaters of several states possibly to help control populations of the invasive carp. (AP Photo/John Flesher, File) (AP)

Republicans block Asian carp dam plan

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
Amend Packing Company owner Kent Weise holds freshly cut New York strip steaks, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (AP)

Change our diets to avoid apocalypse

Nicole Karlis
(AP Photo/Chris Post)

CA bill would fight "pay for delay"

Ana B. Ibarra - KFF Health News
(Getty/Salon)

How to build clocks that detect gravity

Anna Sherman
(Getty/Salon)

How housecats are killing seals

Nicole Karlis
A shopper holds a a branded paper shopping bag from the Zara fashion store on Gran via street on December 19, 2014 in Madrid, Spain. (Denis Doyle/Getty Images)

Will fast fashion end for climate change

Anika Kozlowski - The Conversation
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) (Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

The fatal flaw in Harris' health plan

Richard J. Eskow - Independent Media Institute
Doctor and pharmacist Gilles Leboucher prepares a diluted solution of phages from three different concentrated types of phages on March 8, 2019, at the Croix-Rousse hospital, in Lyon, central-eastern France. (Romain Lafabregue/AFP/Getty Images)

How these viruses saved a girl’s life

Maddie Bender - Massive Science
Amazon Echo Dot (AP/Mike Stewart)

Doctor Alexa will see you now

Janet Rae-Dupree - KFF Health News
In this Friday, March 17, 2017 photo a sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market in Topsham, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

A picture taken at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) in Maison-Alfort, on July 20, 2016 shows a tick, whose bite can transmit the Lyme disease. / AFP / BERTRAND GUAY/Getty Images) (Bertrand Guay/Getty Images)

This photo taken on Monday, July 29, 2019 and released by Press Service of the Ministry of Forestry of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, shows an air view of a forest fire in the Boguchansk district of the Krasnoyarsk region, Russia Far East. (Maria Khlystunova, Press Service of the Ministry of Forestry of the Krasnoyarsk Territory via AP)

The Arctic is burning

Maddie Stone - Grist
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Supporting health care for immigrants

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
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America's lethargy crisis

Nicole Karlis
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