By Salama Harby, Wael Naguib; editing by Deng Shasha SOUTH SINAI, Egypt, June 27 (Xinhua) — Looking at the dead fish on the Ras Mohammed nature reserve shores of the Red Sea, Mohammed Salem said those who murdered the fish were criminals and should be put behind bars. “During the last few days, we found […]
MODIS satellite images on June 25 and June 26 show oil slicks and sheen affecting beaches from Gulfport, Mississippi to Destin, Florida. Oil slick and sheen cover 24,453 square miles on the June 25 image. Slicks appear to impacting beaches from Gulfport, Mississippi to Pensacola, Florida. Freshly upwelling oil is apparent at the site of […]
By Louise Gray, Environment CorrespondentPublished: 8:00AM BST 26 Jun 2010 Wimbledon may be looking green but the rest of Britain’s lawns are already turning brown this summer due to a combination of unusually dry weather and an invasion of hungry bugs. The coldest winter for 30 years caused pink and white patches to appear […]
Conservationists say an epidemic is destroying the big cats’ ability to hunt and turning them into potential man-eaters By Patrick EvansThe Observer, Sunday 20 June 2010 A mystery disease is driving the Siberian tiger to the edge of extinction and has led to the last animal tagged by conservationists being shot dead in the far […]
By Casandra Andrews, Press-Register Published: Sunday, June 27, 2010, 5:32 AM In March, officers with the Bayou La Batre Police Department responded to 470 calls, according to their records. Two months later — after a ruptured well began gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, imperiling the fishing industry in five states and idling thousands […]
The MODIS instrument, on board NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites, is capturing images of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The spill began on April 20, 2010 with the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. This short video reveals a space-based view of the burning oil rig and, later, the ensuing oil […]
By Josh Wingrove Edmonton — From Saturday’s Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Jun. 25, 2010 3:57PM EDT Last updated on Friday, Jun. 25, 2010 9:32PM EDT In a landmark ruling, a judge has found oil sands giant Syncrude Canada Ltd. guilty of a pair of environmental charges stemming from the deaths of 1,606 birds […]
Dr. Oscar Garcia-Pineda of Florida State University has been out in the Gulf this week on the research vessel Brooks McCall. He’s collecting samples and observations of the BP oil slick, and will compare results with simultaneous acquisitions of aerial remote sensing overflights being conducted by NASA. We at SkyTruth are also collecting near-simultaneous satellite […]
Damascus (AFP) June 22, 2010 – A severe four-year drought is devastating Syria’s rural communities, forcing them to abandon the country’s traditional breadbasket in the northeast for cities in search of employment. Earlier this month, the World Food Programme started delivering food aid to nearly 200,000 people in the provinces of Al-Hasakeh, Al-Raqqa and […]
Toya, Mali (AFP) June 22, 2010 – In single file, hundreds of residents of Toya wait patiently for meat distributed by the Red Cross who bought up thousands of starving animals to feed Mali’s drought-stricken population. With containers in hand they await the meat from four cows slaughtered in the village in the north-west […]
