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After a shooting, relatives or neighbors of the victim are sometimes left to clean up human remains on their own. Philadelphia's new program will start addressing that fraught task.

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The World Health Organization says more than 1 billion teens and young adults are at risk of permanent hearing loss due to “unsafe listening practices.” Is it time to change our headphone habits?

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Have you lost someone in an extreme weather event, such as a wildfire, flash flood, hurricane or heat wave? NPR would like to ...

For a few weeks in late spring, thousands of fireflies emerge at the Congaree National Park in South Carolina to blink in ...

An avian flu outbreak in dairy herds has stoked tensions between the federal government and raw milk advocates. Milk testing ...