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Back in March, a coronavirus outbreak at St. Joseph's Senior Home in Woodbridge, N.J., led state officials to evacuate all 78 of its residents. Within weeks, nearly half of them were dead.

The weeks of smoke and fire over the summer did more than torch some trees. They also touched off a renewed debate about the best way to manage forests so…

California was once home to an estimated 500,000 elk. The number is quite a bit smaller now, maybe 13,000, but elk--in three subspecies--are on the…

Peter Edelman has been focused on poverty in America for a very long time. He's one of the two Clinton Administration staffers who resigned in protest…

Tales of gold and adventure lured 26-year-old cabinet maker Abel Helman to California, leaving his wife and family behind in Ashland County, Ohio. Helman…

Brown gives school districts greater flexibility in choosing whether to reopen

President Trump has introduced a round of Christmas chaos that imperils direct payments to millions of Americans suffering due to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

"It's not like we have the Atlantic Ocean to fish in," a French fisherman tells NPR. "Here, we're in the Channel. In an hour and a half, I'm in English waters. If that's off limits, I'm dead."

Could smoke carry disease-causing microorganisms? "It's a very new idea to think of smoke as having a living component," says Leda Kobziar, co-author of an article that explores this theory.

It's not the most pleasant beach experience, picking up dead birds. But it's an important task, one that can shed light on the health and mortality…