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Alessandra Sampaio (C), widow of British journalist Dom Phillips, participates in a demonstration in tribute to Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, murdered while on a reporting mission in the Amazon rainforest one year ago, at the Copacabana neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 5, 2023. (MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Land defenders killed every two days

Lyric Aquino - Grist
Teenage Girl Meditating in Her Room (Getty Images/Fiordaliso)

Why being young is getting worse

Richard Eckersley
Hunting Amazons, illustration from 19th century (Getty Images/clu)

Prehistoric women were hunters, too

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Doctor walking through hospital corridor (Getty Images/Johner Images)

Abortion patients flee to Illinois

Kristen Schorsch - KFF Health News
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A view of devastation in disaster zones after the floods caused by the Storm Daniel ravaged the region in Derna, Libya on September 12, 2023. (Abdullah Mohammed Bonja/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Libyan floods fueled by climate change

Matthew Rozsa
A healthcare employee prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

CDC recommends new COVID boosters

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s high resolution, near-infrared look at Herbig-Haro 211 reveals exquisite detail of the outflow of a young star, an infantile analogue of our Sun. (ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, Tom Ray (Dublin))

James Webb captures new baby star

Elizabeth Hlavinka
In this photo illustration, Chat GPT logo seen displayed on a smartphone with Artifical Intelligence (AI) symbols in the background. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dr. Google meets its match: Dr. ChatGPT

Andrew Leonard - KFF Health News
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Marine biologist Greg Lewbart holds a marine iguana. (Courtesy of Passion Planet Ltd.)

How animals are impacted by climate

Matthew Rozsa
A doctor with the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, takes a swab from a patient at the fever outpatient clinic in Halle/Saale. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Questions about the Pirola COVID variant

Suresh V. Kuchipudi - The Conversation
Mexican journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan (Jaime Nogales/Medios y Media/Getty Images)

Does Mexico have mummified aliens?

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Earth and moon from space (Getty Images/photovideostock/NASA)

Earth is exceeding its planetary bounds

Matthew Rozsa
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This illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data. K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the habitable zone and lies 120 light years from Earth. (NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI))

An exoplanet covered in oceans?

Matthew Rozsa
Male figure walking through maze (Getty Images/OsakaWayne Studios)

Do new Alzheimer's drugs actually help?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Volunteers are seen collecting waste and plastic during the cleaning of San Andrés Beach ahead of World Environment Day on June 5th. (Jesus Merida/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Is "plastic neutral" greenwashing?

Joseph Winters - Grist
U.S. Capitol (Getty Images/Erik Pronske Photography)

Republicans move to slash CDC budget

Andy Miller, Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
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A healthcare employee prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Dennis Avenue Health Center in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 21, 2022. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

New round of COVID boosters approved

Troy Farah
Buildings still smolder days after a wildfire gutted downtown Lahaina. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Record-breaking year of climate disaster

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Young woman in front of the refrigerator at night (Getty Images/LordHenriVoton)

Night owls beware: Diabetes risk is high

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Pine trees have died and fallen killed by acid rain (Getty Images/wcjohnston)

Was acid rain truly a success story?

Matthew Rozsa
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An artist’s impression of the quasar Pōniuāʻena. A quasar is a galactic object with a supermassive black hole in the center. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld/CC BY 4.0)

Black holes may grow up in neighborhoods

Jaclyn Champagne - The Conversation
An American Airlines Airbus A319 airplane takes off past the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, January 11, 2023. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

An aviation disaster waiting to happen

Rae Hodge
Reconstruction of the 25 million year old Ditjimanka Lumakoala blackae, featuring (left to right) the wallaby-sized herbivore Muramura williamsi, extinct koala relative Madakoala devisi and the calf-sized ilariid (Ilaria lawsone). (Illustration courtesy of Peter Schouten)

An ancient koala discovered in Australia

Matthew Rozsa
Baby sleeping in their crib (Getty Images/stock_colors)

Babies should sleep alone, not with toys

Colleen DeGuzman - KFF Health News
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