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The Klamath River flows through Oregon and Northern California. (Getty Images/Elis Cora)

River restoration changes ecosystem

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Boy reaching up to a bedroom drawer that contains a gun. (Getty Images/Gilbert Laurie)

How unsecured guns are killing children

Nicole Karlis
Mexican laborers cut broccoli stalks for Smith Farms' crew A as the harvest season gets underway at a Smith Farm's field near Fort Fairfield in central Aroostook County. Smith Farm's employ over 150 migrant workers to help in their harvest of both broccoli and potatos. (John Ewing/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

USDA to help farmers store soil carbon

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
A view of damage after a tornado tore through the US state of Mississippi, United States on March 25, 2023. At least 25 people have been killed and dozens injured after a tornado tore through the US state of Mississippi late Friday. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The race to improve tornado predictions

Matthew Rozsa
Children arrive at Woodmont Baptist Church to be reunited with their families after a mass shooting at The Covenant School on March 27, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Seth Herald/Getty Images)

How to help kids recover after a tragedy

Keith A. Spencer
Eight-year-old Dakota Stevenson looks over Walthers pistols at the Smith & Wesson booth during the 136th NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits April 13, 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Markian Hawryluk
Doctor in a hospital (Getty Images/KTM_2016)

Banning noncompetes for medical staff

Harris Meyer - KFF Health News
Pack of Gray Wolves (Getty Images)

Want to sequester carbon? Save animals

Gabriela Aoun Angueira - Grist
(Getty/MarianVejcik)

How Big Gas cozies up to regulators

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Marijuana buds (Getty Images/Yuri Kriventsoff)

How to reverse a cannabis overdose

Troy Farah
Oil drilling rig (Getty Images/sasacvetkovic33)

Oil drilling caused record earthquake

Matthew Rozsa
Friends at a pub all on their phones (Getty Images/Henrik Sorensen)

Can you rebuild your attention span?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Participants hold signs during the Senate Democrats' rally against Medicaid cuts in front of the U.S. Capitol (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Medicaid rate debacle hurting staffers

Keely Larson - KFF Health News
Oumuamua, interstellar object passing through the Solar System (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Humdrum comet or alien spacecraft?

Nicole Karlis
Gorteria diffusa, aka the Beetle Daisy or Katoog (Cat Eye) (Dwergenpaartje/Wiki Commons)

Why a daisy evolved to look like a fly

Troy Farah
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee speaks at a hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 30, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Sen. Sanders now chairs health panel

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
A pigeon flies over a Exxon mobil gas station (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images)

How Exxon’s climate projections fared

Jesse Nichols - Grist
Rafts of brown seaweed, Sargassum sp., pile up on the shore of Miami Beach, Florida, USA. (Andre Seale/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The monster seaweed "blob" that wasn't

Nicole Karlis
Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

It's too late to clean space junk

Matthew Rozsa
Desoto State park dam (Getty Images)

Dam emissions earns applause

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
A dried out bank of a nearly water empty dam is pictured on a farm in Piket Bo-berg, Piketberg, north of Cape Town, on March 7, 2018 as a result of a three-year-long drought. (WIKUS DE WET/AFP via Getty Images)

Indigenous leaders negotiate on water

Lyric Aquino - Grist
Wind turbine reflected in solar panels (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

How the US could phase out fossil fuels

Joseph Winters - Grist
Nesting bald eagle with baby (Getty Images/Mark Newman)

Climate change's surprise effects

Matthew Rozsa
This illustration conceptualizes the swirling clouds identified by the James Webb Space Telescope in the atmosphere of the exoplanet VHS 1256 b. (NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI))

Webb eyes exoplanet with water, methane

Nicole Karlis
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