Alabama told a federal judge that it could soon be ready to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence. The disclosure came Monday at a court hearing ...

How does climate change and dry soil contribute to forest stress? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of ...

A death row inmate in Alabama, Kenneth Eugene Smith, was executed Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia, a controversial and untested method that has prompted legal pushback and public scrutiny from ...

Alabama is set to become the first state to execute a death row prisoner using nitrogen gas — a controversial method said to be painless that experts warn is an untested human “experiment.” Kenneth ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith's Alabama execution set for Thursday Alabama is set to carry out the first execution in the United States to use nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, a controversial and untested ...

Corn farmers always seem to be searching for that perfect nitrogen (N) application rate, probably because it can be a moving target. Apply too little, and you miss out on yield potential. Apply too ...

Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesday signed into law new methods of execution that can be used in Louisiana for the state’s nearly 60 death row prisoners starting July 1. Electrocution is back in rotation ...

Smithtown is planning to roll out several initiatives designed to reduce nitrogen flowing into local waters after being ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution: nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, ...

On 25 January, Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) officials will strap Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney in Holman Correctional Facility and pump his lungs full of pure nitrogen. Having survived ...

Most organisms require nitrogen to produce biological molecules, such as nucleotides and amino acids, but until recently, only prokaryotes were known to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. “It’s a very ...