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A Phoenix resident rests under shade while seeking protection from the sun and heat at the Human Services Campus during a record heat wave in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 18, 2023. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change worsening homelessness

Matthew Rozsa
Pollution of household waste of clean mountain rivers in the Carpathians is a huge problem for people. (Getty Images/panaramka)

Have humans caused a new geological era?

Matthew Rozsa
A patient waits to recieve an abortion at a Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 14, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Abortion funds are "on the brink"

Nicole Karlis
Man and woman in waiting room (Getty Images/EmirMemedovski)

Women sought tubal ligation post Dobbs

Nicole Karlis
Teenage girls lying on bed looking at smart phones (Getty Images/The Good Brigade)

Social media benefits teen mental health

Mike Males
U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hold a joint press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

First non-American to walk on the Moon

Rae Hodge
A protestor holds a sign reading 'My Body My Choice' at a Women's March rally outside the Arizona State Capitol on October 8, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Legal shockwave follows AZ abortion ban

Nicole Karlis
A medical mask is seen at Fühlinger See beach at summer heat temperature around 30 degrees Celsius in Cologne, Germany on May 18, 2022 (Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Climate change is incubating pandemics

Matthew Rozsa
Close-up of a woman filling a glass of water from the kitchen faucet (Getty Images/Grace Cary)

EPA puts limits on PFAS in water

Matthew Rozsa
A rooster is held in a cage on a farm on January 23, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Why experts are worried about bird flu

Nicole Karlis
Members of Swiss association Senior Women for Climate Protection react after the announcement of decisions after a hearing of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to decide in three separate cases if states are doing enough in the face of global warming in rulings that could force them to do more, in Strasbourg, eastern France, on April 9, 2024. (FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Swiss seniors win landmark climate case

Matthew Rozsa
Curious seal on an ice floe (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

Climate change fuels Antarctic heat wave

Matthew Rozsa
Woman walks through door into natural landscape collage (Getty Images/We Are)

How to navigate "magical overthinking"

Nicole Karlis
A cocoa farmer stirs his cocoa spread out in the sun for drying in Bringakro, a village in the Djekanou sub-prefecture, on November 17, 2022. (SIA KAMBOU/AFP via Getty Images)

Chocolate, climate change and inflation

Matthew Rozsa
Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou (543-578) | The Kunlun Mountains (Kunlun Shan) forms the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau south of the Tarim basin and the Gansu corridor and continues east south of the Wei River to end at the North China Plain. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Chinese climate change, past and present

Rae Hodge
Fresh fish on beach below Cape Coast Castle near Elmina, Ghana. (Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Suspicious death, pollution and seafood

Matthew Rozsa
Police detain Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (C) during a climate march against fossil subsidies near the highway A12 in the Hague, on April 6, 2024. (RAMON VAN FLYMEN/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Thunberg arrested at fossil fuel protest

Kelly McClure
This picture taken early on December 26, 2019 shows a seagull flying above a beach in Kuwait City during the partial solar eclipse event. (YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)

How will birds respond to the eclipse?

Kimberly Rosvall, Liz Aguilar - The Conversation
USGS biologist holds an endangered yellow-legged frog recovered from a fire-ravaged stretch of Little Rock Creek, just off Angeles Crest Highway 2 near Wrightwood in the San Gabriel Mountains. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

A fungal pandemic is massacring frogs

Matthew Rozsa
Alex Jones | Solar Eclipse (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Solar eclipses breed conspiracy theories

Nicole Karlis
Doctor looking at CT scan (Getty Images/1440525438)

Brains are larger but are we smarter?

Matthew Rozsa
Jessica Rosenworcel, Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee hearing on March 31, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

FCC to veto Trump net neutrality repeal

Rae Hodge
Carrie Hankins, of Jefferson County Public Health, holds a Fentanyl test strip during an event held at Lakewood Library on August 25, 2022 in Lakewood, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Lawmakers buy into fentanyl touch myth

Claire Zagorski, Ryan Marino
Cows Pose in a Kansas Pasture (Getty Images/andykatz)

Bird flu outbreaks worrying experts

Matthew Rozsa
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