By Kimberly KindyWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, July 6, 2010 In the 77 days since oil from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon began to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has skimmed or burned about 60 percent of the amount it promised regulators it could remove in a single day. The disparity between what BP promised […]
By Matthew Hinton, The Times-PicayunePosted: Monday, July 05, 2010, 8:06 PM A tar ball from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washed ashore near the Treasure Island subdivision in Lake Pontchartrain as people fish near the Rigolets in Slidell, Monday July 5, 2010. MATTHEW HINTON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Oil has reached Lake Pontchartrain Technorati Tags: oil […]
Sea Shepherd CEO, Steve Roest, flies at an undisclosed altitude to examine the situation in the Gulf. Watch as he narrates his account. Sea Shepherd Flies Over the gulf ***Exclusive footage*** Technorati Tags: oil spill,oil production,pollution,Gulf of Mexico,North America,wetland,habitat loss,ecosystem disruption
By Len Bahr, Contributing Op-Ed columnist, www.LaCoastPost.com Published: Monday, July 05, 2010, 6:00 PM The coast of Louisiana occupies North America’s largest delta, which has been rapidly shrinking and sinking for a century. River channelization, flood levees, upriver dams and coastal oil and gas production continue to take their toll. But a decade from now, […]
This year will almost certainly set the record for lowest Arctic ice volume ever recorded (see “When things were rotten“). But whether it will set the less important — but more visible — record for sea ice extent is less certain. You can see how close 2010 is to 2007 now. On the one hand, […]
Bucharest (AFP) July 5, 2010 Romanian authorities on Monday issued a flooding red alert for several towns along the Danube, which has risen to a record level, threatening to cause further damage in the hard-hit country. “This week we will be facing dangerous meteorological and hydrological events,” Prime Minister Emil Boc said after an emergency […]
By Sarah Gordon, Sky News Online5:08pm UK, Monday July 05, 2010 Hundreds of people have drowned in Russia trying to keep cool during a heatwave that has been sweeping across the country. As temperatures soared to record-breaking highs, hitting 37C in central regions, sweltering Russians have been throwing themselves into rivers and lakes to cope […]
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 06, 2010 As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, so does the pressure on the plant kingdom. The hope among policymakers, scientists and concerned citizens is that plants will absorb some of the extra CO2 and mitigate the impacts of climate change. For a few decades now, researchers have hypothesized about one […]
Bodo, Nigeria (AFP) July 2, 2010 – The waters around the Niger Delta swamps of Bodo are covered in a thick film of oil that has left the once lush mangroves looking like burnt twigs covered in grease. The air reeks of crude. “I struggle everyday,” said fisherman Gaagaa Giadom, 60, paddling his blackened canoe […]
Governor Jindal’s proposal to build a wall of sand berms to keep oil out of Louisiana’s marshes and off its shores has gotten a lot of media coverage, most of it supportive. A growing number of experts have voiced serious concerns or outright opposition to the plan (1). Both they and the public have been […]
