By The Associated PressJune 05, 2010, 10:46AM By Seth Borenstein, AP Writer They are the ghastly images of a summer fouled before it started. Squawking seagulls and majestic brown pelicans coated in oil. Click. Gunk dripping from their beaks. Click. Big eyes wide open. Click. Even the professionals want to turn away. They can’t. “They […]
This figure shows how average temperatures worldwide have changed since 1901. Surface global data come from a combined set of land-based weather stations and sea surface temperature measurements, while satellite measurements cover the lower troposphere, which is the lowest level of the Earth’s atmosphere (see diagram on p. 20). “UAH” and “RSS” represent two different […]
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOSASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SPOKANE, Wash. — Researchers have embarked on an ambitious study to track the health of thousands of high school graduates over a half century in a Montana town where a toxic mine has killed hundreds of people and made it the deadliest Superfund site in the nation. People […]
Published: 7:00AM BST 03 Jun 2010 Starvation Island in northern Zimbabwe is living up to its name as rising lake waters have submerged large tracts of grazing land relied on by hundreds of animals. The island has shrunk to about one-third of its original size after record seasonal rains from central Africa drained into the […]
By John Platt Jun 4, 2010 10:00 AM Imagine having a pet in your family for 79 years and through four generations. Now imagine that during that time your pet became an endangered species. Finally, imagine having that pet stolen from your backyard. That’s what happened to Harry Barritt of London’s Bromley borough. His family’s […]
By Alister Doyle, Environment CorrespondentOSLOThu Jun 3, 2010 2:03pm EDT OSLO (Reuters) – Brazilian farmers are setting more fires in parts of the Amazon where deforestation has slowed, according to a study on Thursday that shows weaknesses in a U.N. plan for slowing climate change. Big fires, set by farmers to clear land for agriculture, […]
SEAL, a French transport company, is scheduled to ship 79 containers of rosewood tomorrow from the port of Toamasina on its vessel Terra Bona, reports Midi Madagascar. The shipment comes less than three months after Madagascar’s ruling authority banned timber exports after international uproar over the organized logging of the country’s national parks in […]
June 03, 2010 BOULDER—A detailed computer modeling study released today indicates that oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico might soon extend along thousands of miles of the Atlantic coast and open ocean as early as this summer. The modeling results are captured in a series of dramatic animations produced by the […]
By Allen Powell II, The Times PicayuneJune 03, 2010, 7:15PM For the first time since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana 46 days ago, oil began pushing into Barataria Bay in thick, heavy concentrations, prompting local officials to put out a call for more absorbant boom to combat its spread. Jefferson […]
By Press-RegisterJune 03, 2010, 3:57PM U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has declared a fishery disaster in the Gulf of Mexico due to the economic impact on commercial and recreational fisheries from the ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Locke has added Florida to the earlier determination area announced May 24 for the states of Louisiana, Mississippi […]
