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It sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories or a disaster movie: a series of volcanic eruptions kicks off a deadly pandemic. But new research suggests that such an event may indeed have happened.
IN TOO MANY CORNERS OF THE WORLD, THE SUM-mer skies now arrive with a sepia haze, telltale smoke that signals both burning forests and systems under strain. First responders rush into wildfires knowin
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