In ‘Silent Spring,’ Rachel Carson Described a Fictional, Bucolic Hamlet, Much Like Her Hometown. Now, There’s a Plastics Plant Under Construction 30 Miles Away

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Missing woman from Stoughton

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Without effective action to bend the upward curve of greenhouse gas emissions, parts of the American

As the Standing Rock Sioux tribe was mounting opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline last spring,

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Update: Houston police said July 6 that Rudy Farias had not actually been missing for the past eight

Estes Park, Colo. — A 25-year-old Rhode Island man died after falling and being pulled underwater at

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A civil rights group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice dis

Activists sue Harvard over legacy admissions after affirmative action ruling