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January 24, 2022

Pollution These Shellfish Could Kill You Indigenous communities along Alaska's coast are developing scientific networks to test shellfish for toxins because the state is not doing so By Karen Pinchin

Vaccines How Immunocompromised People without Strong Vaccine Protection Are Coping with COVID People with diseases or treatments that suppress their immune system cannot count on the same protection most vaccinated people have By Tanya Lewis

Space Exploration What Is a Lagrange Point? NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will travel to a special spot where the gravity from Earth and the sun is balanced By Clara Moskowitz,Matthew Twombly

Climate Change How Biden Could Close Coal Plants without Carbon Regulations The Environmental Protection Agency is looking at achieving greenhouse gas emissions reductions by targeting other pollutants By Jean Chemnick,Hannah Northey,Sean Reilly,E&E News

Education Teaching about Racism Is Essential for Education Lessons about racial injustice help students understand reality By The Editors

Conservation Track New Zealand's Bid to Take Back Nature The country's audacious predator-eradication drive gains ground By Katie Peek

Health Care Billionaires Bankroll Cell Rejuvenation Tech as the Latest Gambit to Slow Aging Startups bet that carefully controlled cell reprogramming may lead to age reversal, but hurdles remain By Michael Eisenstein,Nature Biotechnology

Health Care These Are the Latest COVID Treatments But shortages mean that new antivirals and other drugs may be hard to come by By Esther Landhuis

Climate Change To Fully Mitigate Climate Change, We Need to Curb Methane Emissions The Build Back Better legislation, now in the Senate, would include programs to reduce methane output By Sean Casten

Climate Change Discarded 1990s Energy Invention Makes a Comeback Once deemed too expensive, triple-pane windows could help reduce emissions by improving energy efficiency By John Fialka,E&E News

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 326, Issue 2

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "The more I learn about it, the more it makes it a little scarier to go out and collect clams." Stephen Payton, environmental assistant for the Seldovia Village Tribe

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