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The Netherlands allows medically assisted euthanasia for extreme mental suffering. Some doctors question the guardrails.

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City officials are ready to rebuild. But defending against future fires requires thinking about more than buildings.

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The first of five large dam projects under consideration has been approved, despite environmental and social costs.

A novel private plan in the late 1980s helped set the stage for planting trees as a means to sequester carbon emissions.