Gabrielle Emanuel
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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The U.N. says the number of children who died before the age of 5 is at an all-time low worldwide, and about half what it was in 2000. Some countries, including Ethiopia, have done even better.
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The global cholera vaccine stockpile is empty at a time when there are outbreaks around the world. Last year, the WHO recommended the vaccine dose be cut in half to stretch the supply.
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Massachusetts is housing homeless people in hotels. That sometimes means pushing current hotel residents out of their rooms and into homelessness.
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250 years ago, colonists dumped tens of thousands of pounds of British tea into Boston harbor in an act of defiance of British rule that helped catalyze the American Revolution.
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The Massachusetts budget is in limbo as state politicians argue over funding for migrant shelters. Homeless and migrant families are facing uncertainty as winter begins.
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Rising temperatures and carbon dioxide levels give the toxic vine the oomph it needs to grow earlier, bigger and itchier, scientists say.
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Climate change appears to be making poison ivy thrive, with the plant growing faster, larger and more potent.
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In recent years, the number of children enrolled in a federal benefit program, Supplemental Security Income, has dropped. It provides assistance to people who are very poor and have a disability.
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Firefighters are on the front lines of the effort to regulate PFAS because they have been particularly exposed to these chemicals through their jobs and equipment.
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As the FDA considers whether to make birth control pills available over the counter, some are looking back at the controversial history of the development of "the pill."