By David Knowles With the the scope of the BP oil spill growing clearer with each passing day, a flood of images confirming the grim ramifications has begun swamping the airwaves. The following CNN clip, taken at Grand Isle, La., gets the Surge Desk’s vote for best capturing the growing sense of desperation along the […]
A Brown Pelican sits in heavy oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo / Charlie Riedel) Caught in the oil Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,North America,Gulf of Mexico,bird decline,wetland,ecosystem disruption,habitat loss
By Matt WalkerEditor, Earth News Fish are being threatened by rising levels of man-made noise pollution. So say scientists who have reviewed the impact on fish species around the world of noises made by oil and gas rigs, ships, boats and sonar. Rather than live in a silent world, most fish hear well and sound […]
BY Matthew Lysiak In Grand Isle, La. and Helen Kennedy, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERSWednesday, June 2nd 2010, 12:52 AM Here’s what President Obama didn’t see when he visited the Gulf Coast: a dead dolphin rotting in the shore weeds. “When we found this dolphin it was filled with oil. Oil was just pouring out of […]
By David A. FahrentholdWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, June 2, 2010; 8:18 PM DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Pancake-sized blobs of oil have begun washing ashore in this barrier-island beach town, as significant amounts of oil from the BP spill make landfall in new places far to the east of Louisiana. The oil appeared on this 14-mile […]
By Travis Griggs tgriggs@pnj.com Kimberly Blair kblair@pnj.com • June 1, 2010 Escambia County and Gulf Breeze officials are bracing for the imminent landfall of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill on Pensacola beach and local waterways. “It’s inevitable that we will see it on the beaches,” said Keith Wilkins, Escambia’s deputy chief of neighborhood and […]
By Kimberly Blair • kblair@pnj.com • June 2, 2010 Several people visited Pensacola Beach this morning to get one last look before it could fall victim to the massive oil spill looming off the Gulf Coast. At approximately 10 a.m. there were no signs of tar balls in the sand and no oily sheen on […]
By Frank Pope, Ocean Correspondent Conservationists fear a falling shark population is prompting Asian chefs to look for manta and devil rays to help meet the voracious demand for shark fin soup. Found in coastal waters throughout the world, rays present an easy target as they swim slowly near the surface with their huge wings. […]
By GREG BLUESTEIN and BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writers PORT FOURCHON, La. – The risky effort to contain the Gulf oil gusher hit a snag Wednesday when a saw became stuck in a thick pipe on a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said the goal was to free […]
By Jeremy Hancewww.mongabay.comJune 02, 2010 According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, snow cover retreated to the lowest extent ever recorded in North America by the end of this April. Snow cover was 2.2 million square kilometers below average. With records of snow extent beginning in 1967, this is the lowest in 43 […]
