It’s been two weeks since the blowout and explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon. Here are some photos that have emerged recently, showing the scale of the disaster.
By Kate Galbraith3 July 2012 The historic Texas drought caused the Ogallala Aquifer to experience its largest decline in 25 years across a large swath of the Texas Panhandle, new numbers from a water district show. The 16-county High Plains...
By Ben Raines, Press-Register5 April 2012 The stench of death was heavy along the rocks of Dauphin Island's Katrina Cut last week. Midway across the mile-wide rock wall, wedged between two boulders at the water’s edge, a dolphin carcass washed...
Consumer waste from the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is turning a Hawaiian beach "into plastic", Tropic of Cancer presenter Simon Reeve has found. Conservationist Sam Gon escorted him to the remote Kamilo Beach, where plastic bottles, bags, tyres, rusting petrol...