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In this image obtained from the County of Maui, a wildfire burns on the island of Maui near an intersection at Hokiokio Place and Lahaina Bypass in Lahaina, Hawaii, August 9, 2023. (Photo courtesy of County of Maui / Zeke Kalua)

Hawaiian fires leave at least six dead

Rae Hodge
US President Joe Biden (C) gestures after signing a proclamation to designate Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, at Red Butte Airfield, 25 miles (40kms) south of Tusayan, Arizona, on August 8, 2023. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden protects Grand Canyon from mining

Elizabeth Hlavinka
An aerial view of the almost dried up Zernek Dam due to the heat and excessive evaporation in the last months in Gurpinar district of Van, Turkiye on September 28, 2022. (Necat Hazar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Climate change worsens isolation

Akielly Hu - Grist
Reconstruction of Hupehsuchus about to engulf a shoal of shrimps. (Artwork by Shunyi Shu, © Long Cheng, Wuhan Center of China Geological Survey)

An ancient whale-like reptile

Matthew Rozsa
Common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) in flight (Getty Images/imageBROKER/Dieter Mahlke)

Solar farms drive away bats

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The sun sets behind the Statue of Liberty as it is partially obscured by heat waves from the exhaust of a passing ferry on May 31, 2020, in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

July was the hottest month in history

Matthew Rozsa
Samantha Casiano (C) speaks during a press conference outside the Travis County Courthouse on July 19, 2023 in Austin, Texas. A Texas state court will hear arguments from both sides in Zurawski v. State of Texas, a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of thirteen Texas women denied abortions despite serious pregnancy complications. (SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)

Texas trial changed abortion story

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
3D model of the novel Coronavirus (Getty Images)

New COVID mutant EG.5 driving up cases

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Lost fishing gear lies underwater on the seabed (Getty Images/Andriy Nekrasov)

Could plastic pollution be not that bad?

Matthew Rozsa
Nurse disinfecting male arm before drawing blood (Getty Images/YakobchukOlena)

More gay men can donate blood—here's why

Troy Farah
Terminus of Mendenhall Glacier (Getty Images/Danny Lehman)

Alaska capital faces major flood

Matthew Rozsa
Doctor uses stethoscope to listen to baby (Getty Images/Svetlana Repnitskaya)

U.S. maternal mortality rates too high

Sonia Hassan, Hala Ouweini - The Conversation
Plastic bottle being put in recycling bin (Getty Images/Anchiy)

Do you have "recycling bias?"

Kate Yoder - Grist
The Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1565 (Wiki Commons)

The Little Ice Age and climate change

Matthew Rozsa
A banner at the inaugural Earth Day depicting the earth calling out for help, New York City, 22nd April 1970. (Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Republicans weren't always anti-climate

Matthew Rozsa
Minks at farmer Stig Sørensen's estate where all minks must be culled due to a government order on November 7, 2020 in Bording, Denmark. (Ole Jensen/Getty Images)

Shut down fur farm disease factories

Matthew Rozsa
New mom closes her eyes as she kisses her baby's hand. (Getty Images/SDI Productions)

FDA approves postpartum depression pill

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Human airway epithelial cells after growth and differentiation inside an AirGel tissue-engineered airway. Green: mucus; orange: cilia; pink: actin; blue: nuclei. (Tamara Rossy (EPFL))

Lung-like organoids unlock lung disease

Matthew Rozsa
Aerial View City in the US | Cancer Cell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are humans a cancer on the planet?

Troy Farah
Neurology research, concept (Getty Images/TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
Carrizo Plain National Monument (Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management)

Feds shutter some California oil wells

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The Grassy Narrows First Nations Reserve has been plagued by the neurotoxin for over 50 years after a pulp and paper company dumped 10 tonnes of mercury into the Wabigoon River, contaminating the fish that is a staple to their community. (Randy Risling/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Mercury poisoning Indigenous community

Anita Hofschneider - Grist
Girl with sanitary pads and tampons in pocket (Getty/Isabel Pavia)

Early puberty triggered by the pandemic

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Crane Valley Hotshots set a back fire as the York fire burns in the Mojave National Preserve on July 30, 2023. (DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Cali wildfires causing "fire whirls"

Matthew Rozsa
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