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FILE - This Nov. 11, 2014 file photo shows a deforested area dotted with blue tarps, marking the area where miners reside, and craters filled with water, caused by illegal gold mining activities, in La Pampa, in Peru's Madre de Dios region. Peru's government declared an emergency across a broad jungle region because of mercury contamination, much of it caused by wildcat gold mining. Photographer Rodrigo Abd of The Associated Press and three other journalists in Brazil, Colombia and El Salvador won the 2016 Maria Moors Cabot Prize, which recognizes excellence in coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) (AP)

Tax havens skirt conservation efforts

Cassie Freund - Massive Science
NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch, a member of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 59/60, attends her final exam at the Gagarin Cosmonauts' Training Centre in Star City outside Moscow on February 20, 2019. (Getty/STR/AFP)

NASA's All-Female Spacewalk cancelled

Nicole Karlis
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How food companies are making you sick

Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner - Independent Media Institute
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New clues from giant storms on Neptune

Nicole Karlis
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Rodrigo Duterte; Donald Trump (Getty/Noel Celis/Alex Wong)

Why incompetent men fail upwards

Nicole Karlis
An aerial view shows part of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, which is one of Africa's richest ecosystems, with forests, grassland, a lake and a mountain. (AP Photo/Christopher Torchia) (AP)

Death toll rises after Cyclone Idai

Eric Holthaus - Grist
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Yale psychiatrist: How we enable Trump

Tana Geneva - Raw Story
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Trump and Pence vs. choice

Melissa Haussman - The Conversation
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Electrifying news!

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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Did your doctor "ghost" you?

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
Andrew Wheeler (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Suddenly, it’s all about clean water

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
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Teens are lonelier than ever

Jean Twenge - The Conversation
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"One Nation Under Stress" (Courtesy of HBO)

How inequality affects mental health

Alli Joseph
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Can we send thoughts brain to brain?

Jordan Harrod - Massive Science
Heavy smog in Piccadilly Circus, London, 6th December 1952.; "The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution : and how We Can Fight Back" by Gary Fuller (Getty/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Penguin Random House)

The study that changed the world

Gary Fuller
A layer of pollution can be seen hovering over Los Angeles, California (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

Big polluters, big obstacles

Patti Lynn - Truthout
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Mars InSight Rover (NASA)

Tremors on Mars detected

Nicole Karlis

Should we delay children’s vaccines?

Bernard J. Wolfson - KFF Health News
This composite image of photographs made by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 29, 2000 shows the planet Jupiter. The photographs taken during the Cassini's closest approach to the gas giant at a distance of approximately 10 million kilometers (6.2 million miles). The Great Red Spot, a fierce storm larger than Earth, has been observed for centuries. But in recent years, it has been mysteriously shrinking. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute via AP) (AP)

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

Donna Pierce - The Conversation
People evacuate their homes after flooding from Hurricane Harvey. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Petrochemical fire in Houston

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
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Should parents fear potatoes?

Jack Barton - Massive Science
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When sex workers become therapists

Carrie Weisman - In These Times
FILE - This March 25, 2014, file photo, shows a CVS store in Philadelphia. Target announced Monday, June 15, 2015, that it is selling its pharmacy and clinic businesses to drugstore chain CVS Health for about $1.9 billion in a deal that combines the resources of two retailers seeking to polish their reputations as health care providers. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (AP)

CVS now sells CBS-infused products

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Wade Robson, from left, director Dan Reed and James Safechuck pose for a portrait to promote the film "Leaving Neverland" at the Salesforce Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. (AP/Taylor Jewell)

Why abuse stories matter more than stats

Kevin Quigley - The Conversation
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