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Skincare videos are featuring children as young as two, Guardian analysis finds, prompting fears about the industry’s reach and lack of safeguards. (Marsh, García, Goodier, Richards, Hunter-Green, Gutiérrez and Shah, 4/22)

Across the U.S., critics are pressuring public officials to stop or stall new solar projects, often citing unfounded health concerns. (Clark, 4/24)

Since the 1950s, plastic has seemingly become the Swiss Army knife of daily living. It’s in everything from medical devices and car parts to electronics, clothing and more. Plastic’s multifunctionality has helped drive down product costs across many industries, including plumbing, where PVC is a durable, less costly alternative to galvanized pipe. Yet the same qualities that make plastic so useful — durability, light weight and low cost — also make it hard to avoid. Plastics and microplastics are now showing up in air, drinking water, food, household dust and beyond. (Atwater, 4/24)

If you walk down any given aisle at Sephora, you see the word. If you listen to any podcast having to do with wellness or longevity, you’ve heard about them, too. And you may have caught wind that Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is moving to lift restrictions on certain injectable forms of them. But still — still! — you may be wondering what the hell *are* peptides? (Gerson, 4/21)

After losing her legs, a New York Times food writer began to feel like a tourist in her home city. So, facing her fears, she met it like one. (Komolafe, 4/22)