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The ability to land a military cargo plane on a frozen Arctic lake is becoming less likely as a warming environment reduces the number of subfreezing days. That puts ice thickness below the minimum needed to support heavy aircraft. Arctic lakes sometimes won’t reach that minimum thickness at all. New research by University of Alaska […]
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SAN FRANCISCO (June 4, 2026) – Environmental groups challenged in court CalRecycle’s recently finalized regulations for the state’s landmark plastic packaging law, which were weakened and create giant loopholes that undermine the law’s recycling and plastic reduction goals. NRDC, Californians Against Waste Foundation, and Oceana filed a petition and complaint in San Francisco...
GENEVA – Refugees in Eastern and Southern Africa remain in exile for a median period of almost 16 years, according to new analysis by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, underscoring the urgent need to expand solutions. The analysis, based on UNHCR’s registration data between 2001 and 2025, shows that displacement in the region is rarely short-term. At the […]
<...LOS ANGELES — Could the way doctors traditionally measure obesity allow a subset of people with obesity-related health risks slip through the cracks? Medical experts have typically calculated obesity using body mass index (BMI), a calculation based on a person’s height and weight. In the last year and a half, however, some practitioners have shifted […]
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June 4, 2026 – When Markwayne Mullin appeared before Congress Tuesday for the first time as homeland security secretary, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., asked a question Mullin should have had no trouble answering: Will the Department of Homeland Security follow federal court orders? Mullin couldn’t give Murphy a straight answer (nor could he provide one to simila...