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Terrified passengers trapped in flooded subway cars in Zhengzhou, China. Water cascading down stairways into the London Underground. A woman wading through murky, waist-deep water to reach a New York City subway platform.Subway systems…

WASHINGTON - The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday that the United States was "not yet out of the woods" with the pandemic and was again at a "key point" when the highly contagious Delta variant tore…

The fate of almost everything on Earth’s surface is determined by infernal engines deep below. Mars is no different. Now, thanks to an intrepid robot parked on the Martian surface by NASA in November 2018, scientists have a map of our…

The inside of a shark is full of curiosities, starting with rows of hard-working teeth that can be replaced with fresh ones over the course of its life. But a little further down in the digestive tract - just before the end of the shark,…

In Maine, regulated packaging products account for up to 40 percent of the waste stream.In both states, a key benefit of the program is that recycling will become more consistent across the country. Today recycling is a patchwork quilt,…

A separate deal between the companies and Native American tribes is still being negotiated.Wednesday’s agreement leaves thousands of other lawsuits against many other pharmaceutical defendants still unresolved, including manufacturers,…

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and gives a behind-the-scenes look at how our journalism comes together.When I photographed people in Covid-19 intensive care units earlier this year, I was protected by four plastic sets:…

A towering cloud of hot air, smoke and moisture that reached airliner heights and spawned lightning. Wind-driven fronts of flame that have stampeded across the landscape, often leapfrogging firebreaks. Even, possibly, a rare fire…

VAN HORN, Texas - Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world, flew into space on Tuesday. It was a short trip - more than 65 miles into the sky over West Texas - in a spaceship built by Mr. Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin.While Mr Bezos…

WASHINGTON — Democrats are preparing to muscle through the nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning to head the Bureau of Land Management, despite united opposition from Republicans who have branded her an “eco-terrorist” because of her…