BATON ROUGE, June 10, 2019 – A recent forecast of the size of the “Dead Zone” in the northern Gulf of Mexico for late July 2019 reports that it will cover 8,717-square-miles of the bottom of the continental shelf off Louisiana and Texas. The unusually high Mississippi River discharge in May controls the size of […]
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New study shows aggressive policing link to major crime
Sept. 27, 2017 – A reduction in the systematic and aggressive enforcement of minor violations by police may reduce major crime complaints, suggests a paper published this week in Nature Human Behaviour. This finding challenges conventional thoughts on the relationship between authority and compliance. The last few decades have seen widespread adoption of proactive policing strategies […]
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Deepwater Horizon oil shows up in sparrows
Nov. 16, 2016 -Scientists have identified the first evidence of Deepwater Horizon oil in a land animal – the Seaside Sparrow. The scientists analyzed the diet and feathers of sparrows collected more than a year after the oil spill. The birds that were captured in habitats that were exposed to the oil had a different […]