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A tree trunk is lies on a now dry section of the El Guavio Water Reservoir on April 18, 2024 in Gachalá, Colombia. Water reservoirs around Colombia are facing low levels due to a major drought caused by El Niño-Southern Oscillation. (Diego Cuevas/Getty Images)

Will La Niña cool us down? Probably not

Out-Of-State Abortion Travel (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

When abortion travel turns to nightmare

Scientist planting seedlings on a Mars base (Getty Images/EvgeniyShkolenko)

Agriculture trick for Mars matters here

Ayurella Horn-Muller - Grist

Drug users prepare cocaine before injecting, inside of a Safe Consumption van set up by Peter Krykant on September 25, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

The drugs were never the point

Sunrise Movement protesters gather near VP Harris' Brentwood home calling on her to urge President Biden to declare a climate emergency on Sunday, April 14, 2024. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Climate activists turn up the heat

A man pushes a bycicle along as he walks amid building rubble in the devastated area around Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital on April 3, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (AFP/Getty Images)

Israel's war on Gaza destroying climate

Edward Carver - Common Dreams

Cat watching a small bird (Getty Images/zmijak)

Are house cats safe from bird flu?

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 during NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test on June 05, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Boeing Starliner averts disaster

Two little boys covered in mud standing in a mud hole and laughing. (Getty Images/Andreas Kuehn)

Patriarchy harms boys and men, too

Mary Elizabeth Williams

American astronaut William Anders, of NASA's Apollo 8 mission, during a panel interview held at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois, April 5, 2018. (J.B. Spector/Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago/Getty Images)

Apollo 8 astronaut dies in plane crash

A woman demonstrates what a patient would experience in a therapy room at Field Trip, a psychedelic therapy clinic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on August 28, 2020. (COLE BURSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Do psychedelics require a therapist?

Abortion rights demonstrators march near the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, June 25, 2022. (SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)

Texas abortion exceptions still muddled

Plastic Pollution in the Ocean (Getty Images/Yunaidi Joepoet)

Scientists report plastic-eating fungus

View of Red Howler monkeys sitting on branch in forest, Catatumbo River, Venezuela. (Getty Images/simonkr)

How habitat fragmentation harms wildlife

John R. Platt - The Revelator

Two male lions meet and start to walk shoulder to shoulder with the same step. (Getty Images/Massimo Mei)

Celebrate wildlife of our "Queer Planet"

Anher Flores, the head of chimp care and compound manager at the Wildlife Waystation in the Angeles National Forest, holds the hand of a chimpanzee inside a transport cage, waiting to be loaded into a moving van for a 1600 mile journey east to Chimp Haven in Keithville, Louisiana, the worlds largest chimpanzee sanctuary. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

How to study PTSD in chimpanzees

Tim Brinkhof - The Revelator

Young man lost in his thoughts (Getty Images/Vuk Saric)

Stigma shames men who want less sex, too

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Sun sets over the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on May 8, 2024 in San Francisco, California, United States as the Bay Area is going to see this week its warmest temps since last October. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Lethal heat dome headed for Southwest

Doctor holding tablet showing brain human and body (Getty Images/Vithun Khamsong)

AI, health care and human realities

Arjun V.K. Sharma - Undark

Male Birth Control May Be Available Soon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Male birth control is safe and effective

A woman sleeps with her baby in the maternity ward of a hospital on August 14, 2009 in Goroka in the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. (Jason South/Fairfax Media via Getty Images)

Pregnant in a warming climate

Zoya Teirstein - Grist

Power Station | Wall Street sign (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Wall Street's role in climate change

Nuclear fusion, 3D rendered illustration of a high-energy plasma core within a tokamak, symbolizing advanced nuclear fusion technology. (Getty Images/koto_feja)

Modern nuclear tech can't outrun risks

Hackers sell stolen Ticketmaster data

Griffin Eckstein

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