Environmental Issues

What 129 Degrees Feels Like

A large digital thermometer sits at the entrance to the gleaming mid-century-modern visitor center in Furnace Creek, California. When I…

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Neurocosmetics Are Skin Care Gone Wild

Updated at 10:14 a.m. on July 19, 2024. For just $65, the skin-care company Selfmade will sell you a kit…

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Fighting to Breathe in Los Angeles County

J o Franco still remembers the moment she realized that her nose worked. Growing up in Wilmington, a Los Angeles…

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There Are Exceptionally Sharp Octogenarians. Biden Isn’t One.

Joe Biden’s problem isn’t his age. It’s his ability to function. America has known a number of exceptional octogenarians who…

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The Silence Doctors Are Keeping About Millennial Deaths

Several years ago, in my work as a palliative-care doctor, I cared for a man in his 60s who had…

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Joe Biden’s ‘Cognitive Fluctuations’

Last Thursday was not a good day for Joe Biden. During the president’s shaky and at times incoherent debate performance,…

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Eat More Cheese – The Atlantic

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. This article was featured in the One Story to…

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Nobody Really Knows If Pets Are Good for Your Health

This article was originally published by Undark Magazine. For more than a decade, in blog posts and scientific papers and…

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A New Danger at America’s National Parks

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. This is an edition of The Weekly Planet, a…

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Pain Doesn’t Belong on a Scale of Zero to 10

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Over the past two years, a simple but baffling…

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