UPISept. 13, 2010 at 4:23 PM BREMERHAVEN, Germany, Sept. 13 (UPI) — The ice around the North Pole has experienced another severe meltdown this year, German scientists said. Around 1.9 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean will be covered by ice by the end of this summer, the third-lowest figure since satellite monitoring began […]
By Cain Burdeau, Associated Press Thursday, September 09, 2010, 8:45 PM Federal environmental regulators are blasting Gov. Bobby Jindal’s $360 million plan to block oil from the BP spill with sand berms, saying barriers built so far are ineffective and threaten wildlife. In a Sept. 7 letter made public Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency urged […]
Times-Picayune Staff Published: Monday, September 13, 2010, 7:25 PM Plaquemines Parish Wednesday, 8 September 2010 Submerged oil stirred up by boat 4.6 miles northwest of the Grand Gosier Islands. Submerged oil stirred up by boat 7.6 miles east of the Breton Islands. Oil sheen 1.75 miles northeast of the mouth of the Kimbel Pass. Oil […]
By Bob Warren, The Times-PicayuneMonday, September 13, 2010, 3:42 PM Plaquemines Parish officials have asked state wildlife officials to investigate what they said is a massive fish kill at Bayou Chaland on the west side of the Mississippi River late Friday. Photographs the parish distributed of the area shows an enormous amount of dead fish […]
By Michael Graham RichardThu Sep 9, 2010 16:14 More than 180 scientists and government officials have recently gathered in Boston for the 7th International Penguin Conference. The conclusions of the conference are rather alarming: the scientists warn that 10 of the 18 penguin species are experiencing population decline and that a variety of things are […]
Ryanair’s chief executive rips into ‘fucking eco-warriors’, ‘bogus’ scientists and aviation’s ‘crap’ tax deal By Leo HickmanFriday 10 September 2010 Hilarious stuff from Michael O’Leary in the Independent this morning. Just when you thought Ryanair‘s chief executive couldn’t make a bigger prat of himself, he manages to up the ante. This time, by quite some […]
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By Alister Doyle, Environment CorrespondentTue Sep 14, 2010 9:48am EDT JUVFONNA, Norway (Reuters) – Climate change is exposing reindeer hunting gear used by the Vikings’ ancestors faster than archaeologists can collect it from ice thawing in northern Europe’s highest mountains. “It’s like a time machine…the ice has not been this small for many, many centuries,” […]
By Sean Maroney 11 September 2010 Nowshera, Pakistan — Celebrations for the holiday Eid-al-Fitr in Pakistan are muted as millions of Pakistanis continue to suffer in the wake of the country’s worst flooding. The heavy rains came to Pakistan just before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, known locally as Ramazan, arrived. Sunrise-to-sunset fasting is […]
By John PlattSep 13, 2010 05:20 PM Populations of a bumblebee species living on remote Scottish islands have a lack of genetic diversity because of many generations of inbreeding, a situation that could put the region’s bumblebees at risk of extinction, according to a new study by scientists from the University of Stirling in Scotland. […]
