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A painted bat (Kerivoula picta) roosting under Rhizophora stylosa leaf. (Wiki Media Commons/Abu Hamas)

Etsy should stop selling dead bats

Matthew Rozsa
Farmer moves her cows into a barn for their evening milking on April 25, 2017 near Cambridge, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Pinpointing bird flu mortality rate

Teresa Carr - Undark
The examination room in A Woman's Choice of Jacksonville clinic, which provides abortion care on April 30, 2024, in Jacksonville, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Technology enables abortion surveillance

Nicole Karlis
Twisters (Universal Pictures)

"Twisters" lacks climate change message

Matthew Rozsa
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US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a moderated conversation with former Trump administration national security official Olivia Troye and former Republican voter Amanda Stratton on July 17, 2024 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. (Chris duMond/Getty Images)

Harris has outspoken abortion stance

Stephanie Armour, Julie Appleby, Julie Rovner - KFF Health News
Children line up with bottles to get clean water on streets flooded with leaked sewage as the municipality announces the suspension of work in sewage treatment plants as they lack sufficient fuel due to Israel's attacks and blockade in Deir al Balah, Gaza on July 16, 2024. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Poliovirus detected in Gaza wastewater

Matthew Rozsa
Californias Caldor fire moving east toward Lake Tahoe as firefighters continued to battle a blaze, August 23, 2021. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How deadly is climate change really?

Matthew Rozsa
Juvenile Great White Shark swimming near surface underwater (Getty Images/Andrew Thirlwell)

Humans are driving sharks to extinction

Matthew Rozsa
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Kim Kardashian attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

Kardashian loves "salmon sperm facials"

Nicole Karlis
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at the White House on July 14, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Is the backlash against Biden ableist?

Matthew Rozsa
Abortion provider Dr. Barbara Zipkin councils a patient at Camelback Family Planning in Phoenix, Arizona on April 11, 2024. (Getty Images)

Abortion "exceptions" and mental health

Nicole Karlis
Factory at sunset (Getty Images/svarogfilmstudio)

Burying biomass to curb climate change?

Ramin Skibba - Undark
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A healthcare worker prepares to administer a vaccine to a patient for the prevention of mpox the Pride Center on July 12, 2022 in Wilton Manors, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Mpox mutating to become more contagious

Nicole Karlis
This artist's conception illustrates one of the most primitive supermassive black holes known (central black dot) at the core of a young, star-rich galaxy. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Supermassive black holes slowing growth

Fan Zou, W. Niel Brandt
A person holds a sign in opposition to a policy that the Chino Valley school board is meeting to vote on which would require school staff to "out" students to their parents if they ask to be identified by a gender that is not listed on their birth certificate on July 20, 2023 in Chino, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Law bans schools from sharing pronouns

Matthew Rozsa
Republican Vice Presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) speaks to Fox News anchor Sean Hannity (not seen) on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

JD Vance threatens abortion access

Nicole Karlis
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Obstetrician and gynecologist Taylar Swartz uses an ultrasound scanner to check the health of Addie Comegys’ baby on May 30, 2024. (Tony Leys/KFF Health News)

Rural hospitals now face baby bust

Tony Leys - KFF Health News
The Key Largo tree cactus can grow to impressive heights. (Photo courtesy of Susan Kolterman)

Sea level rise causes local extinction

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Mars (Getty Images/Baac3nes)

The icy climate of Mars' past revealed

Matthew Rozsa
Barnyard Range Free Chickens in Rural Western Colorado Outdoors (Getty Images/eyecrave productions)

Human bird flu cases more than doubles

Nicole Karlis
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Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii (Getty Images/Bettmann Contributor)

Last queen of Hawaii and deep-sea mining

Anita Hofschneider - Grist
A farm worker walks through one of the barns at the A. Ooms & Sons Dairy Farm Thursday Nov. 2, 2017 in Valatie, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale /Albany Times Union via Getty Images)

Farmworkers at highest risk for bird flu

Marin Scotten
Octopus with diver's hand underwater (Getty Images/Martin Steinthaler)

Plumbing the depths of animal minds

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Pro-abortion rights demonstrators rally in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 15, 2024. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Abortion restrictions harm mental health

Brad Greenwood, Gordon Burtch, Michaela R. Anderson - The Conversation
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