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President Joe Biden is directing the U.S. to rejoin the international Paris Climate Agreement, which aims to cut global greenhouse gas emissions. Here, activists rally on Dec. 12, 2015.

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  • News

Biden Moves To Have U.S. Rejoin Climate Accord

President Biden signed an executive order to have the country reenter the Paris Climate Agreement, less than four months after formally withdrawing.

January 20, 2021
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  • Nathan Rott
President Biden has vowed quick action on climate change, appointing the largest climate staff of any president.

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  • Environment

Biden To Move Quickly On Climate Change, Reversing Trump Rollbacks

President Biden has set his sights on more than 100 Trump administration environmental rollbacks as well as plans to rejoin the international climate accord.

January 20, 2021
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  • Lauren Sommer
Baltimore is struggling to pay for the massive infrastructure and public health costs associated with global warming. As in many cities, flood risk has dramatically increased as the Earth has gotten hotter.

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  • Science

Supreme Court Considers Baltimore Suit Against Oil Companies Over Climate Change

Overwhelmed sewers. Flooded streets. Deadly heat waves. Baltimore is one of many American cities where the costs of climate change far exceed local resources. Should oil companies pay?

January 20, 2021
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  • Rebecca Hersher
Once the rules for implementing it are worked out, a bill signed into federal law in December will eliminate the required five-month waiting period for diagnosed ALS patients to begin disability benefits, enabling quicker Medicare coverage as well.

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  • Health

ALS Patients To Gain Quicker Access To Disability Benefits And Medicare

Lou Gehrig's disease can take months to diagnose, then rapidly incapacitate patients, leaving many families bankrupt before disability payments and Medicare kick in. A recent law aims to change that.

January 20, 2021
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By:
  • Michelle Andrews
An illustration shows medical student Elizabeth Blackwell at Geneva Medical College (later Hobart College) in upstate New York, as she eyes a note dropped onto her arm by a male student, during a lecture in the college's operating room.

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  • Health

'Doctors Blackwell' Tells The Story Of 2 Pioneering Sisters Who Changed Medicine

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in America to earn her medical degree. Her sister Emily followed in her footsteps. Janice Nimura tells the story of the "complicated, prickly" trailblazers.

January 19, 2021
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  • Dave Davies
In this image provided by NASA, the core stage for the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System rocket is seen at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The four engines fired for a little more than one minute.

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  • Space

NASA's 8-Minute Rocket Test Shuts Down After 67 Seconds

The test was for NASA's Space Launch System, a successor to the retired Space Shuttle program. It takes eight minutes to generate the power needed to get to space, and ultimately to the moon.

January 17, 2021
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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
People lined up to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site in Disneyland's parking lot in Anaheim, Calif. on Jan. 13. The state says all residents 65 or older are now eligible to receive the vaccine.

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  • Health

OPINION: Moral Tragedy Looms In Early Chaos Of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

As states suddenly expand the categories of people eligible for the first scarce shipments of vaccine, who will be watching to make sure those hit hardest by the pandemic aren't left behind?

January 16, 2021
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  • Hazar Khidir and
  • Melanie Molina
The Trump administration's decision to relax rules regarding the prescription of buprenorphine comes as record-level drug overdose deaths occurred in the U.S. in the 12 months ending in June 2020.

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  • Medical Treatments

Trump Administration Will Let More Doctors Prescribe Drug To Fight Opioid Addiction

The change means that doctors will no longer need a special federal waiver in order to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication to treat opioid use disorder.

January 15, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Brian Mann
Caro Verbeek speaks on the TEDx stage in Gronigen, Netherlands.

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  • History

Caro Verbeek: What Can The Scents Of The Past Tell Us About Our History?

Each day, we breathe about 22,000 times--and all that time we smell. Scent historian Caro Verbeek recreates scents of the past. She says, just like music and art, smell is a part of our heritage.

January 15, 2021
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  • NPR/TED Staff
Aircraft largely stayed on the ground in spring 2020, leading to a drop in greenhouse gas emissions.

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  • Environment

Pandemic Causes Historic — But Fleeting— Drop In U.S. Climate Emissions

As Americans stayed home during the pandemic, cars and planes produced less heat-trapping emissions. But the effect is only temporary.

January 14, 2021
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  • Lauren Sommer
Dulles International Airport last month. The CDC will require all air passengers entering the U.S. to provide a negative COVID-19 test before boarding their flight.

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  • Health

CDC Requires COVID-19 Test From Air Passengers Entering The U.S.

Starting Jan. 26, airlines will only allow people to board if they provide documentation that they tested negative in the preceding three days or have recovered from the disease.

January 12, 2021
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  • Dustin Jones
Staff and residents of the Ararat Nursing Facility in the Mission Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles got COVID-19 shots on Jan. 7. Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths have been surging throughout Los Angeles County.

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  • Health

Why You Should Still Wear A Mask And Avoid Crowds After Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine

It takes time after vaccination for immunity to the virus to build up, and no vaccine is 100% effective. Plus, scientists don't yet know if the vaccine stops viral spread. Here's what's known so far.

January 12, 2021
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  • Joanne Silberner
Babe Ruth, a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, in 1918. That year, World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic slashed MLB game attendance by over half from what it was in the previous season.

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  • Economy

What 1919 Teaches Us About Pent-Up Demand

A hundred years ago, a world war and a pandemic wreaked havoc on baseball and other industries. But pent-up demand helped them come roaring back.

January 12, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Two gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park (but not necessarily these two) tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday. A zoo statement says the apes have mild symptoms but are doing well.

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  • Health

2 Gorillas In California Contract The Coronavirus

Gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park developed a cough last week. The apes were tested and found to have the virus. It may have come through a human staffer, despite precautions.

January 11, 2021
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  • Dustin Jones
In March 2018, a White House military aide carries the "football," a system that allows President Trump to launch a nuclear strike at any time.

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  • Politics

Pelosi Asks Military To Limit Trump's Nuclear Authority. Here's How That System Works

The House speaker told colleagues she had spoken with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about keeping the nuclear codes from an "unhinged President."

January 08, 2021
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
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