In a contentious hearing Friday morning, a Severn man was sentenced to a 14-year prison term after pleading guilty to negligent manslaughter and a traffic offense for crashing a car into a Brooklyn Park home last summer, killing one resident.
There aren’t enough trees in the world to offset carbon emissions – and there never will be
Researchers are in unanimous agreement that land ecosystems have a finite capacity to take up carbon. Representational image. | Chaideer Mahyuddin / AFP
One morning in 2009, I sat on a creaky bus winding its way up a mountainside in central Costa Rica, light-headed from diesel fumes as I clutched my many suitcases. They contained thousands of test tubes and sample vials, a toothbrush, a waterproof notebook and two changes of clothes.
I was on my way to La Selva Biological Station, where I was to spend several months studying the wet, lowland rainforest’s response to increasingly common droughts. On either side of the narrow highway, trees bled into the mist like watercolours into paper, giving the impression of an infinite primaeval forest bathed in clouds.
April 28, 2021
Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess announced that Todd Allen Beeker, 58, of Pasadena was sentenced to 10 years prison in a non-fatal collision that left the victim, Mr. Bennett Kriewald, 29, permanently disabled. This charge runs consecutive to another 10 year sentence imposed in St. Mary’s County for Driving While Under the Influence of Alcohol (DUI).
This is the first time a defendant has received the maximum sentence of 10 years in Anne Arundel County under the updated Maryland Transportation Code 21-902(i) DUI statute which increased the penalty for drunk drivers with more than three prior convictions from three to ten years in prison. The change to the penalty took effect on October 1, 2019 throughout the state.
One morning in 2009, I sat on a creaky bus winding its way up a mountainside in central Costa Rica, light-headed from diesel fumes as I clutched my many suitcases. They contained thousands of test tubes and sample vials, a toothbrush, a waterproof notebook and two changes of clothes.
I was on my way to La Selva Biological Station, where I was to spend several months studying the wet, lowland rainforest’s response to increasingly common droughts. On either side of the narrow highway, trees bled into the mist like watercolours into paper, giving the impression of an infinite primeval forest bathed in clouds.