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The natural climate pattern known as El Niño has officially begun. It exacerbates human-caused climate change, driving even hotter temperatures and other dangerous weather.

The animals returned to their enclosure at the Belfast Zoo after a short time, but not before alarmed visitors came face to face with at least one chimpanzee.

Cartels are increasingly turning to huge, industrial-scale labs to churn out synthetic drugs as they shift away from naturally grown drugs like opium and marijuana.

Kenneth Lay, founder and vilified former chairman of scandal-ridden Enron Corp., died of a heart attack Wednesday morning. He was 64.

Commentary Leroy Sievers has spent a long career as a journalist covering war, genocide, and natural disasters. Now after decades of observing other people's deaths, he is forced to contemplate the possibility of his own. He's fighting cancer.

There's no fowl play here — just blame the supply chain, our comfort food habits and a simple fact of nature. Wings might be pricier, but there's no shortage of them, experts say.

Jon Appleton, who helped develop the digital synthesizer, has died. He was an innovator in what he called "electro-acoustic music," using effects to reshape natural sounds and field recordings.

Neruda's Book of Questions is well known in Latin American literature. A new bilingual, illustrated selection of his poems gives English-speaking children an opportunity to interrogate the world.

A performance centering on Native American voices served as a sort-of groundbreaking for a natural art piece at Illinois State University's Horticulture Center that will be developed over the course of eight years.

Barris died of natural causes Tuesday at his home in Palisades, N.Y., according to publicist Paul Shefrin. Critics called Barris "The King of Schlock" or "The Baron of Bad Taste."