ScienceDaily (June 18, 2010) — According to an article by three Utrecht University researchers published in the journal Science on 11 June, climate change will drastically reduce the discharge of snow and ice meltwater in a region of the Himalayas, threatening the food security of more than 60 million people in Asia in the coming […]
RussiaToday, June 23, 2010 — Louisiana residents witness a strange rain that leaves oil puddles near their homes. Update: There is controversy around this video. It’s raining oil in Louisiana? Comments at DailyKos It’s raining in oil in ol’ Big Easy It’s raining oil in Louisiana Desdemona finds it unlikely that this is really spill […]
By Julie Steenhuysen, editing by Maggie FoxCHICAGOTue Jun 22, 2010 6:58pm EDT Texas A&M University oceanography professor John Kessler, just back from a 10-day research expedition near the BP Plc oil spill in the gulf, says methane gas levels in some areas are “astonishingly high.” Kessler’s crew took measurements of both surface and deep water […]
ScienceDaily (June 22, 2010) — A team of scientists from the University of Nevada, Reno, DRI, Arizona State University and University of California, Davis has returned from a two-week expedition to Guatemala’s tropical high-mountain Lake Atitlan, where they are working to find solutions to the algae blooms that have assailed the ecosystem and the drinking […]
BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen, Wednesday 23 June 2010 at 13:24:00 Disclosure forms from 2008 reveal Louisiana district judge held shares in Transocean, Halliburton and a host of oil firms The judge who yesterday overturned the Obama administration’s six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico previously held shares in Transocean and a […]
By John Flesher of The Associated Press Published: Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 6:46 PM A marine scientist says underwater oil plumes in the Gulf of Mexico are reducing oxygen in some areas, but the drop-off isn’t steep enough to endanger marine life just yet. Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia said Tuesday that water […]
ScienceDaily (June 22, 2010) — Until recently, the disastrous scale of the threat posed by salmon farms to the fauna and National Park of the Aysén region of southern Chile was entirely unknown. The unexpected discovery was made by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and the University of Göttingen, who […]
By Debora MacKenzie14:31 23 June 2010 The floating nurseries of the Gulf of Mexico are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Home to the larvae of more than 120 species of fish, the nurseries congregate along the US coast – precisely where the Deepwater Horizon oil slick is wreaking havoc. Ecologists in the […]
By Marla Cone and Environmental Health News, June 21, 2010 High levels of brominated flame retardants can alter pregnant women’s thyroid hormones, which are critical to a baby’s growth and brain development, according to a California study published Monday. The study is considered important because it is the first human research showing a link between […]
By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.comJune 21, 2010 Humankind’s closest relative, the chimpanzee, is classified as Endangered by the IUCN Red List. Threatened by habitat and forest loss, hunting for bushmeat, trafficking for the illegal pet trade, mining, and disease, the species remains in a precarious position. Yet a new 10-year-plan with East and Central African […]
