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The agencies monitor tree mortality from insects and disease, and they recently released 2014 results. One thing is clear: the bark beetle epidemic is a major player in the condition of the state’s ...

Axel Rudakubana's fascination with extreme violence stretched back years - students at his school said he had a "kill list" of people he wanted to target. He was excluded from secondary school in ...

“And look what happens in other parts of the country, in Portland, where they kill people and destroy the city — nothing happens to them. In Seattle, where they take a big chunk of the ...

Kill Bill: Volume 1, the fourth film by Quentin Tarantino, is an electrifying cinematic masterpiece with a mesmerizing blend of style, grit, and unrelenting action. From the opening scene to the ...

KYIV, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Russian forces unleashed a combined drone and missile strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Saturday, killing three people, while two other attacks in the country ...

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of the species diversity of all herbivores. Leaf beetles can be found to ...

Scientists explored the evolutionary success of leaf beetles, the most diverse herbivores on Earth. They showed that symbioses with bacteria have evolved repeatedly and independently in different ...

Israel has continued to bomb the enclave as it prepares to implement a cease-fire. Civil Defense said Gaza City had the highest toll with more than 80 killed. By Rawan Sheikh Ahmad Since the cease ...

The first phase of the ceasefire is expected to come into force on Sunday. LONDON -- Israeli strikes killed at least 86 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip since the announcement of a ceasefire ...

Israeli forces have killed at least 82 people in Gaza, medical sources told Al Jazeera, including at least 30 people in Gaza City in the hours since Hamas and Israel announced they had reached a ...