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Alzheimer's won't be cured in our lives

Norman A. Paradis - Massive Science
South Africa's Caster Semenya competes in the women's 800-meter final during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) (AP)

The triple whammy of discrimination

Joan Steidinger - Independent Media Institute
In this Feb. 16, 2017, photo, a discarded syringe sits in the dirt with other debris under a highway overpass where drug users are known to congregate in Everett, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (AP)

Needle exchanges endorsed among GOP

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
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The birth-tissue profiteers

Caroline Chen - ProPublica
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5 tips to raise bilingual kids

Christa Jimenez - Common Sense Media
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Pill is the answer to low sexual desire

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
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Soaring costs in cleanup of nuclear site

Phil Zahodiakin - FairWarning
Bernie Sanders; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/AP/Salon)

The Sunrise Movement has had a big year

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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Drug industry under a Senate microscope

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
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What coal country thinks of the GND

Rachel M. Cohen - In These Times
In this photo released by G20 Australia and taken on Saturday Nov 15, 2014, Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott and President of Russia Vladimir Putin hold koala's during a photo opportunity on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia. (AP Photo/G20 Australia,Andrew Taylor) (AP)

Koalas are "functionally extinct"

Christine Adams-Hosking - The Conversation
Algae floats on the surface of Lake Erie's Maumee Bay in Oregon, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (AP/Paul Sancya)

Lake Erie's "Bill of rights"

Valerie Vande Panne - Independent Media Institute
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9 ways racism impacts maternal health

Roberta K. Timothy - The Conversation
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Workers burned up over heat protections

Marjie Lundstrom - FairWarning
Many join hands in prayer at Oceti Sakowin camp shortly before the decision to halt the pipeline was announced. (Charlie May)

Punishing pipeline protesters

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
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We don't need billionaires to save Earth

Kinari Webb, Jonathan Jennings
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Leo W. Gerard
File - In this Saturday, Feb. 13, 2017, file photo, water flows down Oroville Dam's main spillway, near Oroville, Calif. Over six days, operators of the tallest dam in the United States, struggled to figure out their next move after raging floodwaters from California's wettest winter in decades gouged a hole the size of a football field in the dam's main water-release spillway. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) (AP)

Long rivers blocked by infrastructure

Rachel Ramirez - Grist
A one dose bottle of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine, made by MERCK, is held up at the Salt Lake County Health Department on April 26, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Getty/George Frey)

839 measles cases as US outbreak grows

Shira Tarlo
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EPA prefers coal plants over people

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
In this photo taken Feb. 11, 2015, Angelica Lopez, 3, writes her name with the help of her father, Santos Lopez, during a therapy session at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Angelica was born deaf and received an auditory brainstem implant to allow her to hear some sounds as part of a research study into the devices' use in young children. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) (AP)

The road to child mental health care

Bernard J. Wolfson - KFF Health News
In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, the Aris 13 oil tanker is seen from a helicopter in the harbor of Gladstone, Australia. (Kevin Finnigan/Tropic Maritime Images via AP) (AP)

New oil tanker hulls keep oceans clean

Patricia Fernandez - Massive Science
A view of the Los Angeles city skyline as heavy smog shrouds the city in California on May 31, 2015 (Getty/Mark Ralston)

National parks plagued by air pollution

Molly Enking - Grist
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The words "climate change" in the brain

Kate Yoder - Grist
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