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Donald Trump; Ronald Reagan (AP/Photo Montage by Salon)

Trump vies for worst enemy of wildlife

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
(Robyn Beck/Afp/getty Images)

Will cities put their feet down?

Sharon Jayson - KFF Health News
In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016, Bill Crowell shows his garden made to use less water at his home in the Fountaingrove neighborhood in Santa Rosa, Calif. California water agencies that spent more than $350 million in the last two years of drought to pay property owners to rip out water-slurping lawns are now trying to answer whether the nation's biggest lawn removal experiment was all worth the cost. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) (AP)

Lawns need to die

Eric Holthaus - Grist
In this Feb. 21, 2017 photo, a woman wearing a mask walks to a subway station during the evening rush hour in Beijing. Yet the city’s average reading of the tiny particulate matter PM2.5 - considered a good gauge of air pollution - is still seven times what the World Health Organization considers safe. A group of Chinese lawyers is suing the governments of Beijing and its surrounding areas for not doing enough to get rid of the smog. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (AP)

China reduces smog by moving it

Molly Enking - Grist
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In this Nov. 2, 2016 photo, bees gorge on their own honey after being disturbed by beekeeper Davin Larson, who manages six hives of the 15 located at Brooklyn's Green-Wood cemetery, a national historic landmark located on 478 peaceful acres in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (AP)

Urban bee keepers can help save wild bee

Rebecca Ellis - The Conversation
during the second round of The Alfred Dunhill Championship at The Leopard Creek Country Club on December 7, 2007 in Malelane, South Africa. (Warren Little/Getty Images)

Dung beetles may make produce safer

Virginia Gewin - Civil Eats
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Several states move to ban pesticide

Ana B. Ibarra - KFF Health News
A worker from the Cobra Energy Company, contracted by the Army Corps of Engineers, installs power lines in the Barrio Martorel area of Yabucoa, a town where many residents continue without power in Puerto Rico. (AP/Carlos Giusti)

What will a Jones Act waiver mean for PR

Paola Rosa-Aquino - Grist
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Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., left, and Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, listen to statements by the minority as Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, a doctor and former congressman, testified on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, before a House Appropriations subcommittee to outline the Trump Administration's proposals to trim the HHS budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

GOP rep wants to fight climate change

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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Rich mining companies, poor miners

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
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How the autistic are casually belittled

Matthew Rozsa

Hansen says the GND is "nonsense"

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
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Joe Biden (Getty/Mark Wilson)

What happens to Biden's Moonshot now?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A University of California San Francisco police officer makes a phone call as he stands watch overlooking the Mission Bay campus Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010, during a UC Board of Regents meeting in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) ((AP Photo/Ben Margot))

UCSF may merge with Dignity Health

Jenny Gold - KFF Health News
In this Aug. 19, 2014, photo provided by Gotham Whale, a humpback whale surfaces in the Atlantic Ocean just off the Rockaway peninsula near New York City. Humpbacks have been approaching the city in greater numbers than in many years; there were 87 sightings in nearby waters from a whale-watching boat 2014. (AP Photo/Gotham Whale/Paul Sieswerda) (AP)

Pipeline hurting NY's green new image

Justine Calma - Grist
(Getty/Nicolas Asfouri)

Employers use perks to control your life

Elizabeth C. Tippett - The Conversation
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FILE - This Friday, March 20, 2009 file photo shows reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany. A new study released by the journal Science on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2016 says a person’s risk of becoming depressed or hooked on smoking may be influenced by DNA inherited from Neanderthals. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) (AP)

A Neanderthal tooth and human migration

Mirjana Roksandic - The Conversation
A poster released by Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is seen as experts answer questions regarding the measles response and the quarantine orders in Los Angeles Friday, April 26, 2019. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

Anti-vax movement spurs measles outbreak

Nicole Karlis
A soybean field is fumigated near Urdinarrain, Entre Rios province, Argentina, on February 8, 2018. (PABLO AHARONIAN/AFP/Getty Images)

(Photo by Greta Moran / Massive Science)

NYC passes climate legislation

Greta Moran - Massive Science
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The high cost of sex

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
A Christie's employee holds a sketch of David Hockney's painting Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott, painted in 1969 displayed in the background, at Christie's auction house in London, Friday, March 1, 2019. (AP/Frank Augstein)

How art lost its center

Jay David Bolter
An immigrant child looks out from a U.S. Border Patrol bus, McAllen, Texas, June 23, 2018. (AP/David J. Phillip)

Cancer is dangerous for Texan immigrants

Charlotte Huff - KFF Health News
Traffic on the northbound and the southbound lanes of the Interstate 405 freeway near Los Angeles International Aiprort (Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

Gen Z's carbon footprint is too big

Vanessa Nason - WhoWhatWhy
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