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It’s 2021, and the pandemic is still here

Damages from US weather and climate disasters reached a new record in 2020

Online shopping has shifted recycling responsibilities to consumers

Go read these stories about the use of spy satellite images in environmental studies

FDA tells US health providers not to modify COVID-19 vaccine dose schedule

Vaccine variations

Florida counties use Eventbrite to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments

A quirk of COVID-19 tests can track the new coronavirus variant

Go read this New Yorker report on the failed response to COVID-19 in the US

Space

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The ashes of Scotty from Star Trek are aboard the International Space Station

US requires negative coronavirus test from UK travelers

Monitoring COVID-19 vaccine safety means sorting signal from noise

The CDC says the top global health story of 2020 was mosquitoes

The stimulus bill will phase out ‘super’ greenhouse gases

The business of meatless meat

Decoder interview with Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown

Slavery and overfishing on the high seas can’t hide from these researchers

A semester in solitude

After spending the fall in their bedrooms, students say their mental health has suffered

The Verge’s DNA time capsule for 2020

Not your regular thumb drive

Frontline essential workers and the elderly next in line for COVID-19 vaccinations in US

Sunset from the Empire State Building in New York City

Energy

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Stanford algorithm decided to vaccinate only seven of its frontline COVID-19 workers, out of 5,000 doses

Apple just temporarily closed all 53 stores in California and over a dozen in London

A COVID-19 vaccine gets a little bit extra

Members of the US Space Force will now be called ‘Guardians’

Moderna COVID-19 vaccine second to get FDA sign-off in US

It’ll start to be distributed within days

Google now offers weekly COVID-19 tests to every US employee