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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a ...

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Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a New Hampshire storage unit on ...

The suspect was a former Brown PhD student, and officials believe he went to school in Lisbon with the slain MIT professor.