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Pharma cash rolls into Congress

Emmarie Huetteman, Jay Hancock, Elizabeth Lucas - KFF Health News
JAKARTA, INDONESIA: A haze cover the Jakarta bay skyline in Jakarta, 10 June 2007. Indonesia is particularly vulnerable to the impact of climate change as global warming threatens to raise sea levels and flood coastal farming areas, threatening food security. Meanwhile, Indonesia could lose 2,000 small islands by 2030 due to a rise in sea levels as a result of climate change, Indonesia Environment Minister, Rachmat Witoelar said. AFP PHOTO/Ahmad ZAMRONI (Photo credit should read AHMAD ZAMRONI/AFP/Getty Images) (Ahmah Zamroni/AFP/Getty)

Retreating from rising seas is a reality

Kate Yoder - Grist
A young elephant from Asia stands near his mother in its enclosure at the Pairi Daiza Zoo in Brugelette, eastern Belgium, on August 15, 2019 (Photo by Philippe HUGUEN / AFP) (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images) (Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images)

What we lose when the elephants go

Milicent Cranor - WhoWhatWhy
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The first climate change disease is here

Shira Tarlo
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Students take part in a Climate March on April 12, 2019 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Educators urged to join climate strike

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
MRI of spinal column (Getty Images)

The problem with MRIs for low back pain

Lola Butcher - Undark
The nursing home in Hollywood Hills, Fla., where 12 people died after the center lost power from Hurricane Irma in 2017. (Mpi122/mediapunch/ipx)

Nursing home evacuation still dangerous

Lindsay J. Peterson, Kathryn Hyer - The Conversation
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When homophobes weaponize science

Nicole Karlis
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A flooded street after Hurricane Sandy. (Getty/jonathansloane)

"Another hurricane?"

Paola Rosa-Aquino - Grist
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South Korea is hell for millions of dogs

Nina Jackel - Independent Media Institute
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Meet the weirdest planet in the galaxy

Nicole Karlis
Protesters for women's rights march to the Alabama Capitol to protest a law passed last week making abortion a felony in nearly all cases with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, Sunday, May 19, 2019, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP/Butch Dill)

We need a plan for a post-Roe America

Jody Steinauer
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Coming out about mental health

Tarena Lofton - KFF Health News
Climate change activists take part in the international Strike for Climate protest in Los Angeles on May 24, 2019. (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

Unions have a plan for climate action

Rachel M. Cohen - In These Times
"The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine" by Dr. Jen Gunterv (Citadel Press/Chloe Jackman)

Jen Gunter wants to save your vagina

Amanda Marcotte
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Satellite image shows forest fires in the Krasnoyarsk region of Eastern Siberia, Russia (AP/Roscosmos Space Agency)

Siberian wildfires hasten climate crisis

Nicole Karlis
July 27, 2006 arrest file photo made available by the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, in Florida, shows Jeffrey Epstein. (AP/Palm Beach Sheriff's Office)

Report links Epstein to major scientists

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

J&J must pay for role in opioid crisis

Matthew Rozsa
Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on September 3, 2017, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage. (Getty/Karim Sahib)

Rising temps could endanger the Hajj

Paola Rosa-Aquino - Grist
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A black hole just ate a neutron star

Nicole Karlis
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Exoplanets better suited for life?

Mike Wehner - BGR
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Feel like quitting? Blame brain cells

Claudia Lopez-Lloreda - Massive Science
Dr. Lisa Sanders writing her article for the New York Times (Courtesy of Netflix)

Modern medicine: A detective story

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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