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Caroline Collatos is a PhD candidate at UMass Boston working with the New England Aquarium. She spends her days on the island ...

Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod has announced seven new affordable homes will be built on the Cape in three different towns.

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The killing of a 114-year-old man by a speeding car last week brings back the spotlight on road safety in India, where authorities say accidents kill more than a hundred thousand people every year.

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It costs nearly $100 million a year to maintain global stockpiles of vaccines for Ebola, cholera, meningitis and yellow fever in case of emergency. A new study estimates how many lives they've saved.