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The COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for nearly a year now. For the first time in mid-January, Sky Lakes Medical Center in Klamath Falls hit their capacity for taking care of COVID patients. It’s one example of the marathon fight rural hospitals find themselves in.

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the sentencing this week of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The Putin critic was poisoned last year, recovered in Germany, then arrested for violating parole.

Two young, inseparable teenage girls were found hanging side by side from a mango tree in a small village in India in May 2014. Author Sonia Faleiro investigates their deaths in a new book.

They've got to reach urban dwellers as well as the two-thirds of Indians living in rural areas — and deal with vaccine hesitancy. Here's an early progress report on successes — and hiccups.

With vaccine still scarce, and eligibility differing from place to place, some people have easier access to "extra" doses than others. Careful, ethicists warn. Going out of turn is a slippery slope.

Humboldt County can be a wet place, but there's plenty more to come as sea levels continue to rise. The Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment, in the…

They are not the primary way we get around the country anymore, but Americans still have a love for trains. The proof is in a modest factory in the small…

Washington State’s redoubled climate goals and fresh action plan revive hope to cut emissions. But ongoing fossil fuel development in BC could undercut Cascadia’s progress

If you're thinking that the key to humans living sustainably lies in the countryside, you're looking in the wrong direction. Cities are where most of the…

Will California’s bumpy vaccine rollout, more contagious coronavirus mutations, and decision to open up the state send COVID-19 cases surging again?