Kirk Semple

Jan 16, 2025 | miaminewtimes.com | Tom Finkel |Kirk Semple |Todd Anthony |Kathy Glasgow

Welcome to "Flashback," a recurring — perhaps even monthly; we'll see how that goes — feature wherein we turn back the Miami New Times pages and sift through the archives to see what was shaking 30 years ago, then dust it all off to examine it in the harsh light of today. By 1995, New Times had already been around awhile, having published its first issue in December of 1987.

Oct 29, 2024 | sciencedirect.com | Sammani Ramanayaka |Kirk Semple |Xinwei Shi |Weitao Liu

Microplastics (MPs) are plastic particles less than 5 mm in diameter (Zhu et al., 2023). A growing body of evidence confirms that MPs are widely present in agricultural soil (Wang et al., 2021). The MPs are mainly derived from agricultural film covers, sludge landfills, applied compost, irrigation and wastewater flooding, atmospheric deposition, and automobile tire debris, with the abrasion of agricultural films being the main source of MPs contamination in soils (Fig.

Oct 29, 2024 | sciencedirect.com | Sammani Ramanayaka |Kirk Semple |Xinwei Shi |Weitao Liu

Microplastics (MPs) are plastic particles less than 5 mm in diameter (Zhu et al., 2023). A growing body of evidence confirms that MPs are widely present in agricultural soil (Wang et al., 2021). The MPs are mainly derived from agricultural film covers, sludge landfills, applied compost, irrigation and wastewater flooding, atmospheric deposition, and automobile tire debris, with the abrasion of agricultural films being the main source of MPs contamination in soils (Fig.

Oct 15, 2024 | nytimes.com | Kirk Semple |Jonah M. Kessel

In the video above, we introduce viewers to Mike. He's not a real person. He's an invention, a generic character of our creation, whose grueling trip through the American criminal justice system is based on facts and real-world experiences. Mike is our guide to a hidden form of punishment: criminal justice fees. These are levied against people at every turn in their path through the system. They can be big - like the cost of posting bail - or small, like fees to see a doctor in prison.

Aug 11, 2024 | nytimes.com | Kirk Semple |Adam Westbrook

The Opinion video above is the final episode in a series of three videos that take a stand against the death penalty in the United States. It features Charles Don Flores, who has been on death row in Texas since 1999, awaiting execution for a murder he insists he didn't commit. That is where we met and filmed him. The series lands at a hopeful but still challenging time in the movement to get rid of capital punishment in the United States.