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At its most expansive, Antarctic sea ice covers an area the size of Antarctica itself, doubling the size of the frozen continent. But the winter sea ice has been shrinking, and this year there was less ice than ever before, going back to when satellites started tracking annual ice extent around 1980.

Antarctica is melting and we all need to adapt, a trio of climate analyses show

West Antarctica is headed for decades of rapid melting no matter how quickly humans cut greenhouse gas emissions, and 2023 shattered records for missing sea ice around the continent.

People wait in line at a walk-up vaccination site in Washington, D.C., in November 2021.

What lessons have we learned from the COVID pandemic?

The nonpartisan Covid Crisis Group has released its investigative report, titled "Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report." This is what it found.

David Houle is a San Diego resident experiencing homelessness. He's participating in an addiction treatment program that uses Suboxone. Oct. 5, 2023. San Diego, Calif.

San Diego Public Library, Father Joe's Villages work to treat addiction with Suboxone

The School of Social Work at SDSU has partnered with SDPL and Father Joe’s Villages to provide addiction treatment with Suboxone.

A rural mail carrier in 1905 trying out new transportation technology.

Horseless carriages were once a lot like driverless cars. What can history teach us?

Historians say that a little more than a century ago, when cars first hit the roads, they caused nervous laughter and raised real concerns, much like driverless vehicles today.

A gray wolf is seen in the Sequoia National Forest.

A new gray wolf pack is found 200 miles south of California's nearest-known pack

Gray wolves used to roam most of North America before being hunted, trapped and driven out of most of the continental U.S. by the early 1900s. They are native to California.

Tissue-resident T cells, colored blue, are seen in an intestine in an undated photo.

Charged up T cells take on tumors in UCSD lab

Scientists learned how to boost the energy of the immune system’s first line of protection. It could help our bodies fight off cancer.

Taylor Swift reacts during a game between the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri on October 22, 2023.

A Thanksgiving guest's guide to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce

Don't be the only one at the table who's behind on the season's hottest romance plot.

These American birds and dozens more will be renamed, to remove human monikers

The official naming organization for birds in the U. S. is making a bold move, after concerns were raised about birds being named after people with questionable histories.

Sand flies carry the protozoan parasites that spread leishmaniasis. It was thought to be a disease of tropical climates, but leishmaniasis-causing parasites have now been found living and circulating in the United States.

A 'tropical disease' carried by sand flies is confirmed in a new country: the U.S.

Leishmaniasis, a disease spread by a parasite carried by sand flies, is generally considered a tropical disease. Now, thanks to climate change, new research finds it's endemic to the United States.

Krissy Harmon's home is less than a mile from a landfill that caught fire more than three months ago. She uses blue painter's tape to keep smoke out and says her family still experiences health issues brought on by the fire.

A months-long landfill fire in Alabama reveals waste regulation gaps

An unregulated landfill that accepts vegetative waste has burned underground for months. Neighbors were inundated with smoke and left wondering why the site wasn't regulated in the first place.

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