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Lush valley in the Columbian jungle (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

Why carbon offsets don't work: study

Elizabeth Hlavinka
An activist picks up a placard at climate group Fridays for Future's march during a Global Climate Strike in New York on March 3, 2023. (ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate anxiety can spur action: study

Matthew Rozsa
Fresh ear of corn (Getty Images/nikamata)

Is it rude to husk corn in the grocery?

Joy Saha
Mexican Hogfish (Reinhard Dirscherlullstein bild via Getty Images)

The color changing magic of the hogfish

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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A sign for the Food And Drug Administration is seen outside of the headquarters on July 20, 2020 in White Oak, Maryland. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

Is the FDA failing to protect us?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Mutating virus variant (Getty Images/wildpixel)

Highly-mutated Covid strain identified

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Red, White & Royal Blue (Amazon Studios)

The books in "Red, White & Royal Blue"

Joy Saha
Baltimore Ravens #23 draft pick Michael Oher poses for a photograph with his family at Radio City Music Hall for the 2009 NFL Draft on April 25, 2009 in New York City (Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images)

Is "The Blind Side" a lie?

Nardos Haile
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Peanut butter in an open jar (Getty Images/Sanny11)

What are partially hydrogenated oils?

Joy Saha
Himalayas, Mt. Everest, Khumbu Valley, Nepal (Getty Images/John Harper)

Himalayas are much older than we thought

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Engorged Deer Tick. Deer ticks (also called black-legged ticks) and can transmit the pathogens that cause tickborne diseases such babesiosis and Lyme disease. (IMAGE POINT FR/NIH/NIAID/BSIP //Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Where is the Lyme disease vaccine?

Matthew Rozsa
Jars of Rao's sauces are displayed along a grocery store's shelves on August 07, 2023 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Why fans are mourning Rao's pasta sauce

Joy Saha
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Herbs and supplement capsules (Getty Images / Voiculescu Alin / 500px)

Are your supplements harming you?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A firefighting helicopter douses a wildfire in Nea Anchialos town, Volos, Greece, on July 27, 2023. (Marios Lolos/Xinhua via Getty Images)

The climate connection to wildfires

Matthew Rozsa
Maxar satellite imagery showing total destruction of the Lahaina square and outlets after the Lahaina Wildfire, with one building still actively burning. (Satellite image (c) 2023 Maxar Technologies / Getty Images)

Maui wildfires strain health care system

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Image concept of magnetic levitating above a high-temperature superconductor, cooled with liquid nitrogen (Getty Images/ktsimage)

What's so super about superconductors?

Rae Hodge
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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
Common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) in flight (Getty Images/imageBROKER/Dieter Mahlke)

Solar farms drive away bats

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Host Wayne Brady and Orianthi perform onstage during the 2022 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for dcp)

Wayne Brady and what pansexuality means

Nardos Haile
3D model of the novel Coronavirus (Getty Images)

New COVID mutant EG.5 driving up cases

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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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
Girl with sanitary pads and tampons in pocket (Getty/Isabel Pavia)

Early puberty triggered by the pandemic

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Condoms in red wrappers (Getty Images / Alberto Tudor / 500px)

Why are fewer Americans using condoms?

Nicole Karlis
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