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Tourists visit Cuverville Island, Antarctica, on March 04, 2016. The Antarctic tourism industry is generally considered to have begun in the late 1950s when Chile and Argentina took more than 500 fare-paying passengers to the South Shetland Islands aboard a naval transportation ship. The concept of 'expedition cruising,' coupled with education as a major theme, began when Lars-Eric Lindblad led the first traveler's expedition to Antarctica in 1966. Prior to this, human activity in Antarctica was limited to the early explorers, those seeking fortune in the exploitation of seals and whales, and more recently to scientific research and exploration. Antarctica's physical isolation, extreme climate and remarkable wilderness values are a great part of its attraction for tourism. AFP PHOTO/EITAN ABRAMOVICH / AFP / EITAN ABRAMOVICH (Photo credit should read EITAN ABRAMOVICH/AFP/Getty Images) (Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images)

Establishing MPAs in the Southern Ocean

Seth Sykora-Bodie - Massive Science
US Senator Elizabeth Warren (C), Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks with US Senator Bernie Sanders (2nd R), Independent from Vermont, as they discusses Medicare for All legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2017. The former US presidential hopeful introduced a plan for government-sponsored universal health care, a notion long shunned in America that has newly gained traction among rising-star Democrats. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)

What a public option could look like

Shira Tarlo
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City air pollution linked to lung damage

Mike Wehner - BGR
Elijah Wood in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (New Line Cinema)

"Lord of the Rings": A trauma parable

Keith A. Spencer
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(AP Photo/Chris Post)

A law against reckless opioid sales?

Nicolas Paul Terry - The Conversation
French Fabien Danjan of CNRS (French Reseach Institut Center) processes to a handling as he introduces embryonic stem cells in a mouse embryo to set a genetically modified line, on February 9, 2012, at the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), in the transgenesis laboratory which in charge to create animals in order to understand how genes work, in Marseille, southern France. AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT (Photo credit should read ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images) (Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images)

CA's stem cell agency is short on cash

Ana B. Ibarra - KFF Health News
In this Thursday, May 23, 2019 photo, floodwaters overtake a home in Holly Bluff, Mississippi. (AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

The U.N.'s bleak view of Earth's future

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
A brain-scanning MRI machine at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Trump admin hits brakes on Medicare law

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News

Feds want docs to screen you for drugs

Nicole Karlis
Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, left, Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, and Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Mary B. Neumayr, stand as EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler signs the Affordable Clean Energy Rule during a media availability at the Environmental Protection Agency, Wednesday, June 19, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

22 states sue Trump admin over EPA plan

Rachel Ramirez - Grist
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Shrink's orders: Pet the dog

Nicole Karlis
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Class-action & nursing home eligibility

Susan Jaffe - KFF Health News
(JASPER JACOBS/AFP/Getty Images)

The conversion of a former anti-vaxxer

John M. Glionna - KFF Health News
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How #MeToo is changing sex ed policies

Keren Landman - KFF Health News
Arctic polar bear and cubs in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Getty/sarkophoto)

Trump weakens Endangered Species Act

Matthew Rozsa
A seagull struggles to take flight covered by a plastic bag, on the seashore at Caleta Portales beach in Valparaiso, Chile on July 17, 2018. (Getty/CLAUDIO REYES)

Plastic debris gets in seabirds' blood

Nicole Karlis
Kate Nash and Chris Lowell in "GLOW" (Ali Goldstein/Netflix)

"GLOW" gets migraines right

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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A car kicks up dust as it drives by corn fields on August 7, 2012 in State Center, Iowa. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Making the Dust Bowl look tame

Dan Samorodnitsky - Massive Science
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Trump EPA sued: refusal to ban pesticide

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
U.S. Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) speaks during a rally at Howard University May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. The Sunrise Movement held an event for the final stop of the "Road to a Green New Deal" tour to "explore what the pain of the climate crisis looks like in D.C. and for the country and what the promise of the Green New Deal means." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

A planet in crisis

Aviva Chomsky - TomDispatch.com
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Will extreme risk protection laws work?

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
An injured person is tended to after a mass shooting at a country music festival on October 2, 2017 (Getty/Ethan Miller)

How hospitals prepare for mass shootings

Shira Tarlo
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