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Toni Okamoto started Plant-Based on a Budget to show people how affordable plant-based eating can be.

Nonwhite Americans are eating less meat. Vegan activists of color explain why

1:08pm July 01, 2022

by Shauneen Miranda

The increase in nonwhite Americans identifying as vegetarian and eating less meat is part of the longstanding work of vegan activists of color to make plant-based eating more accessible.

The effect the Supreme Court's climate decision may have

5:26pm June 30, 2022

by Laura Benshoff

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Environment Protection Agency does not have the authority to mandate carbon emissions reductions from existing power plants.

A woolly mammoth calf, believed to be female, was found in Canada's Yukon territory buried in ancestral land of the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin, whose elders named her Nun cho ga, which means "big baby animal" in the Hän language.

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A mummified baby mammoth was found in Canada with intact hair, skin and tusks

4:20pm June 30, 2022

by Juliana Kim

The calf, believed to be female, was buried for more than 30,000 years in ancestral land of the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin, whose elders named her Nun cho ga, which means "big baby animal" in the Hän language.

A woodcut from the 15th century depicts a scene from the Black Death plague, which killed an estimated 50 million people in Europe and the Mediterranean between 1346 and 1353. Scientists say they may have found the origin of this deadly disease.

Scientists say they've solved a 700-year-old mystery: Where and when Black Death began

3:50pm June 30, 2022

by Max Barnhart

For centuries, scientists and historians have wondered where the Black Death — the deadliest pandemic in recorded history — came from. New research sheds light on the ancient disease.

In this July 27, 2018 photo, the Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo.

With time ticking for climate action, Supreme Court limits ways to curb emissions

1:01pm June 30, 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in a key environmental case, WV v. EPA, says the federal agency lacks authority to use greenhouse gas emissions caps to force fossil fuel power plants out of business.

Cracking a window can help reduce your risk of infection by COVID pathogens.

Coronavirus FAQ: Got any tips on improving indoor air flow to reduce infection risks?

7:21pm June 29, 2022

by Melody Schreiber

"Ventilation is the way forward," says infectious disease doctor Abraar Karan of Stanford. Here's how to get better air flow at home, in schools and offices — even in gyms — to stave off COVID.

This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 pr

The U.S. will offer nearly 300,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine in the coming weeks

9:56pm June 28, 2022

by William Stone

The Department of Health and Human Services will make 296,000 doses available in the coming weeks, and expects a total of 1.6 million doses to be available in the U.S. by the end of the year.

The strange underground economy of tree poaching

6:30am June 28, 2022

by Greg Rosalsky

A new book dives deep into the fascinating criminal world of tree theft and efforts to combat it.

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The story of Fred the mastodon

4:09pm June 27, 2022

by Kai McNamee

A mastodon named Fred, also known as the Buesching mastodon, is a distant relative of the modern elephant. Fred's skeleton is preserved in the Indiana State Museum.

People line up outside of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on June 23, as the city makes vaccines available to residents possibly exposed to monkeypox.

Monkeypox outbreak in U.S. is bigger than the CDC reports. Testing is 'abysmal'

5:00am June 25, 2022

by Michaeleen Doucleff

The testing system set up by the CDC actually deters doctors from ordering a monkeypox test, and many physicians aren't familiar with the disease, resulting in too few tests and little tracking.