One difference between resident and transient killer whales is their fins. Residents have more rounded, curved dorsal fins, while those of transients are…
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Climate change is making allergy season more dangerous for children. A new report released today explains how.
Maine may not be able to offer public prekindergarten for all 4-year-olds. The state’s goal for…
TODAY’S TOP MAINE STORIES
Climate change is making allergy season more dangerous for children. A new report released today explains how.
Maine may not be able to offer public prekindergarten for all 4-year-olds. The…
There have been many female murderers over the centuries called a “Borgia,” in reference to Lucrezia Borgia, the Italian Renaissance-era noblewoman who, as stories claim, poisoned her husbands and lovers once they were no longer…
Vanessa Armstrong
History Correspondent
In the hours following Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on the evening of April 14, 1865, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton sent a flurry of telegrams to his…
Vanessa Armstrong
History Correspondent
In the hours following Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on the evening of April 14, 1865, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton sent a flurry of telegrams to his…
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Bluffton, S.C. – PETA is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for fatally shooting…
In the 1970s and 1980s, pine trees growing in various forestry plantations in South Africa’s Western Cape province began to die in patches. These trees succumbed to a mysterious root disease and the patches expanded gradually.…
Microbes such as bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi form part of our everyday lives – they live in us, on us and around us.
We need them for healthy digestion, immune function, and the synthesis of essential nutrients, and we…
Paraquat is a deadly herbicide that has been linked to Parkinson’s disease in farmworkers and agricultural communities. It’s already been banned in more than 50 countries. But in the U.S., paraquat is still widely sprayed on farms…
ISLAMABAD —
Afghanistan’s Taliban Monday carried out another public execution of a man charged with murder, defying international calls to stop the “inhuman” punishments. It was the third public execution within a week.
The Taliban…
As a huge fan of the Scream franchise and finding joy in the kitchen, it's a no-brainer that I needed to create a pie to resemble the famous Ghostface. I ended up choosing a blueberry pie to give off the impression it's his black cloth…
A gun-toting felon blasted away at a group of rivals in Brooklyn — and then ran down one of his targets with a car after shooting the man in the leg, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
Luis Rosario, 30, didn’t let his time behind bars…
That’s according to Juliette Touma, Director of Communications for UNRWA, the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees, who spoke in depth to UN News’s Conor Lennon on Monday about her most recent visit to the Strip.The interview has been edited…
AUSTIN – On July 25, 2022, capital murder suspect José Baldomero Flores III pled guilty in a Bexar County courtroom in the killings of two women, Heather Willms and Esmeralda Herrera. Flores, 41, was sentenced to two life sentences to…
The Global Study on Homicide analyzes the complex dynamics behind these violent deaths and includes a special section on how organized crime is driving death rates up in Latin America and the Caribbean. The report examines homicides…
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The Killer whale in, three of a kind.
In oceans all over the world, Orcas are swimming. In the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest, a matrilinial pod of resident Orcas is…
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Orcinis Orca. They’re commonly known as the Killer whale. But the Orca isn’t actually a whale: it’s in the dolphin family.And while it shares a lot of the same characteristics…
Deadly air pollution is the biggest global environment killer according to an announcement by the World Health Organization who found that the millions of deaths it cause nearly doubled their estimated and outnumbered those caused by…
One of Tenerifes chief attractions is a show involving killer whales, or Orcas. But now a debate has been unleashed about whether these intelligent mammals belong in to DW Documentary:# For more information visit: Facebook:
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