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The industry doesn’t expect a ban to be imminent and still hopes to kill the idea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

For a product that could kill us before it learns to tell time, that’s quite a marketing choice.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Earlier this month, a top safety researcher at Anthropic warned AI was advancing so quickly he believed there was a greater than 10% chance it "could kill all humans" within the next decade.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

A study published in 2025 in the Journal of Economic Entomology showed that bistrifluron, an insect growth regulator that interferes with the formation of a new exoskeleton, can kill western drywood termites with remarkable efficiency.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Perhaps the greatest paradox about understanding “the woods” is that so many who enjoy it, or seem to enjoy it, spend most of their time trying to kill parts of it.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

"The climate emergency kills," he said in July, during a visit to the southern province of Almería where a wildfire claimed 15 lives.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Developing a practical formulation could make a major difference because successfully controlling drywood termites requires more than simply having an insecticide that kills them.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

"If a power acts like Satan, picks targets like Satan, and kills like Satan, it's Satan," he posted on X.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Cure us before it kills us, I guess.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

These crabs are so highly susceptible to insecticides that every spraying of creeks, ditches, and ponds in tidal marshes kills most of the crabs living there.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Two years after Helene brought 25-foot floods that killed 43 people in Asheville’s Buncombe County and caused billions in damage, the city’s artists and business owners are finding their way back to stability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Archuleta, whose granddaughter was killed by an impaired driver, said working to turn the bill into law was a personal fight for him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The UN mission Unama also confirmed that at least three civilians were killed.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Its effects in patients are well documented, but researchers are still working to understand the molecular details that determine why some cells are killed by the drug while others manage to withstand it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

You knew you wouldn’t get killed at recess, you wouldn’t have to hand over your lunch, and you wouldn’t have to hide your money if you had any.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

The Duxbury mother, accused of killing her three young children, argued at trial that she wasn’t criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The Black Death is best known for the catastrophic wave of plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1353, killing millions of people.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

At the dawn of the internet, a select group of companies made a killing creating the equipment and business model for the system of glass strands bundled in cables, known as a fiber-optic network.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

The residents soon suspected the funnels contained some kind of herbicide that was slowly killing the tree - a suspicion also shared by arborists who came to examine it.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“No, I just gave the kids something to do to keep them from killing each other.”

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce