A month after the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform burned and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, Grand Isle, Louisiana was deluged with an orangish brown toxic mix of crude oil and dispersal agents sprayed into the spill in unprecedented volumes....
By Anwar Faruqi Anwar FaruqiThu Jan 27, 11:08 am ET BAGHDAD (AFP) – Record low water levels at Iraq's largest hydroelectric dam have ground turbines there to a halt, amplifying a power shortage that led to riots last summer, a...
By Kathryn Hansen 19 December 2017 (NASA) – In September 2017, a new iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier—one of the main outlets where the West Antarctic Ice Sheet flows into the ocean. Just weeks later, the berg named B-44...
