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Mega-fires have become the "new norm" in some states.

Russia has declared a state of emergency in several Siberian regions in response to the wildfires, which are burning an area of around 2.7 million hectares.

Scientists looked at over 24,000 surveys on the insects by citizen researchers.

Human life expectancy has more than doubled in the last two centuries.

Mexico's plan points to the failure of the decades-long international war on drugs.

"The human consequences of this, particularly drying over large parts of North America and Eurasia, are likely to be severe," the authors warned.

Alligator gars are often referred to as "living fossils" because they have not changed much since the time of their earliest ancestors.

Scientists discovered the hidden fluorescence by accident.

The 1944 book has chilling details about Jewish communities across the U.S. and Canada.

The gem is roughly the size of a chicken egg.

"Seeing our neighbors making progress should put much more pressure on us to get it right and ditch our outdated federal marijuana policy," Democrat Congressman Earl Blumenauer from Oregon told Newsweek.

"If we don't see something happen in 2019, almost all of us will be takeout targets for Canadian players."

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Representative Earl Blumenauer told Newsweek he sees a legal cross-border North American market as "not just possible" but "probable."

"Dragon Ball Super: Broly" is the twentieth film in the franchise and will bring the Legendary Super Saiyan into canon continuity.

"We set out to find the origin of the oldest known contagious cancer. What we uncovered were the last traces of ancient American dogs."

Scientists have been pondering the Pacific Coast route for about 50 years as an alternative to the idea that humans sneaked past the ice further inland, to the east.

Scientists are trying to understand why the generally solitary creatures are grouping together.

"There would be no environmental problem if everything remained frozen, but we know the Earth is getting warmer."

The strange rock found in Australia bore a striking resemblance to some very distant geology.

Italy High School has been locked down.

One official was removed from Robert Mueller's team investigating alleged collusion between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia.

The Pineapple Fund has given a $4 million grant to clinical trials on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy.

New evidence reveals a previously unrecorded indigenous population and poses a major challenge to existing theories about the earliest Americans.

"We have sacrificed a lot. We have paid a huge price both in blood and treasure," a spokesman said.

Double the snowfall in Alaska has resulted from warmer oceans.

Law enforcement has changed its definition of a "fugitive from justice."

Construction is taking place at a secret desert plant in California.

The amount is three times the official Pentagon estimate, according to a new study.

Since 2013, investigators have documented at least 500 cases of serious misconduct, many of them sex scandals.