Expert discusses the harms of algal blooms
When dying birds and sea lions wash up by the dozens on Southern California beaches, David Caron's phone starts ringing.
Environment
Dec 4, 2019
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News tagged with death sentence
Climate change takes toll on oceans, ice: UN report
Humanity should brace for blowback from oceans and frozen zones increasingly addled by climate change, a major UN report will warn.
Environment
Sep 20, 2019
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Mapping the modern death sentence
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Law have collaborated on a new website that uses a data-driven, interactive map to illustrate the rapid decline of the issuance of the death sentence in the United States ...
Social Sciences
Apr 2, 2018
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Are death row cases plagued with racial bias?
Defendants charged with murder in North Carolina from 1990 to 2009 were more than twice as likely to receive the death penalty if the victims were white, Michigan State University researchers have found.
Social Sciences
Dec 13, 2016
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Tiny gold particles could be the key to developing a treatment for pancreatic cancer
A diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is often a death sentence because chemotherapy and radiation have little impact on the disease. In the U.S. this year, some 53,000 new cases will be diagnosed, and 42,000 patients will die ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 19, 2016
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Study examines racial bias in death-penalty decisions
A Latino defendant convicted of murder who is poor is more likely to be sentenced to death by white jurors, a new study shows.
Social Sciences
Sep 3, 2014
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Genetically modified tobacco plants produce antibodies to treat rabies
Smoking tobacco might be bad for your health, but a genetically altered version of the plant might provide a relatively inexpensive cure for the deadly rabies virus. In a new research report appearing in The FASEB Journal, ...
Biotechnology
Feb 1, 2013
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Probing Question: Is the death penalty on the decline in America?
In November, the Commonwealth of Virginia executed John A. Muhammad, the infamous “D.C. sniper” responsible for 10 murders seven years earlier. On the eve of his execution, a Washington Post poll found 66 percent of Virginians ...
Social Sciences
Dec 17, 2009
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Kenyan prisoners on death row weren't deterred by the threat of the death penalty, research finds
Kenya's last execution of a prisoner was in 1987. But the country still hosts a death row population of nearly 600. Almost all were sentenced to death for murder or robbery with violence. New sentences are handed down every ...
Social Sciences
Jan 23, 2023
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Ailing manatees in Florida's Brevard County appear to have outlasted Christmas freeze
A cold spell and plunge in water temperature often mean a death sentence for manatees, but those in the Indian River—despite harsh environmental conditions and widespread starvation—survived the Christmas freeze without ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 28, 2022
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