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Time to phase out "climate change"?

Kate Yoder - Grist
Boaty McBoatface, a autonomous underwater vehicle (AUVs) used for scientific research (Getty/Matt Cardy)

Boaty McBoatface's big discovery

Nicole Karlis
In this image made from video, the sun sets near an industrial park next to the Florida Everglades, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) (AP)

Climate change alters Everglades

William Nuttle - The Conversation
FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2015 file photo President Barack Obama gets a tour Kotzebue, Alaska. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik,File) (AP)

Discussing Alaska's history of violence

Beena Raghavendran, Adriana Gallardo - ProPublica
A volunteer of the NGO 'Canarias Libre de Plasticos' (Canary Islands free of plastics) carries out a collection of microplastics and mesoplastic debris to clean the Almaciga Beach, on the north coast of the Canary Island of Tenerife, on July 14, 2018. (Desiree Martin/Getty Images)

Nowhere is safe from plastic pollution

Rebecca Dzombak - Massive Science
FILE - In this April 23, 2014, file photo, Daryl Cura demonstrates an e-cigarette at Vape Store in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) (AP)

E-cig companies use cartoons in ads

Jon-Patrick Allem - The Conversation
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Antibiotics and factory farms

Christy Spees - Independent Media Institute
Vintage cars line a property after the Loma fire burned through Loma Chiquita Road near Morgan Hill, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. A heat wave stifling drought-stricken California has worsened a wildfire that burned some buildings and forced people from their homes. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) (AP)

Fighting extreme heat

Justine Calma - Grist
A nurse prepares a flu shot. (AP/David Goldman)

Why the flu came twice this year

Patricia L. Foster - Massive Science
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Tech tools for mental health support

Christine Elgersma - Common Sense Media
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People are being paid to get healthy

Marc Mitchell - The Conversation
A one dose bottle of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine, made by MERCK, is held up at the Salt Lake County Health Department on April 26, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Getty/George Frey)

How a measles outbreak is contained

Jenny Gold - KFF Health News
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Modern life: tooth decay and pricey care

Mary Otto - Independent Media Institute
FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016 file photo, judges rate marijuana plants at the Oregon Cannabis Grower's Fair marijuana plant competition in Salem, Ore. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File) (AP)

Baby Boomers are taking up marijuana

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
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Golf, pesticides and a father’s death

Lynne Peeples - FairWarning
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Could a vaccine prevent Alzheimer’s?

Nicole Karlis
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Politics and planetary destruction

David Bromwich
Anti-abortion demonstrators hold a protest outside the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center in St. Louis, Missouri, May 31, 2019. (Getty/Saul Loeb)

Why restricting abortions is unhealthy

Nicole Karlis
A Paris employee shows a dead rat in the Saint Jacques Tower park, in the center of Paris, Friday, Dec. 9, 2016. Paris is on a new rampage against rats, trying to shrink the growing rodent population. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) (AP)

What's behind the ratpocalypse?

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
International Space Station (NASA via Getty Images)

Trump's NASA opens doors to tourists

Nicole Karlis
FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 4, 1995 file photo, Masssachusetts State Trooper Daniel Dhionis stands guard at the Planned Parenthood Clinic of Greater Boston in Brookline, Mass,, where flowers and letters were left after two women were killed, and five people injured in shootings at Planned Parenthood and another clinic. Planned Parenthood clinics have been repeated targets of bombings, arson and protests. (AP Photo/Julia Malakie) (AP)

Will pro-life rhetoric spark violence?

Rebecca Gibian - WhoWhatWhy
Students gather with signs for a Climate Strike rally on the campus of Columbia University, Friday March 15, 2019, in New York. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

Climate activists: Marching might work

Kate Yoder - Grist
In this Friday, July 1, 2016 photo, a rainbow-color waste slick appears on Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, in New York. The canal is a Superfund site polluted with decades' worth of industrial waste and sewage, but the developer says the pending more than half a billion dollars cleanup of the toxic waterway hasn't deterred tenants from flocking to the building, where the rent for a one-bedroom apartment starts in the low $3,000s. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) (AP)

EPA to states: Stop policing pollution

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
FILE - This May 9, 2012, photo shows the Grandview State Park overlooking the New River Gorge National River in Grandview, W.Va. The state offers numerous trails for hiking and other spots with scenic views. (AP Photo/The Charleston Gazette, Kenny Kemp) (AP)

State parks are on the verge of collapse

Mike Wehner - BGR
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