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For many decades, the coca plant—the main ingredient in cocaine—has been grown almost exclusively in South America. But a new study shows that nearly half of northern Central America appears ...

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By Karen Zraick Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse. Low-lying tropical island nations were expected to be early ...

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Anti-choice activists argue that if Amber Nicole Thurman had submitted to forced childbirth, she'd still be alive ...

A billionaire spacewalker is back on Earth. SpaceX's capsule carrying tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and his crew splashed ...

Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy’s first memoir is coming out next fall, a book inspired by the death of her mother.