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The Netherlands allows medically assisted euthanasia for extreme mental suffering. Some doctors question the guardrails.

P eter Hotez has made every effort to stay up to date with Covid-19 vaccines, starting with the initial two doses and ...

City officials are ready to rebuild. But defending against future fires requires thinking about more than buildings.

The first of five large dam projects under consideration has been approved, despite environmental and social costs.

A novel private plan in the late 1980s helped set the stage for planting trees as a means to sequester carbon emissions.

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