Helicopters drop sandbags to protect Louisiana coast from oil spill

By Harry R. Weber and John CurranThe Associated Press Published: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 12:45 p.m. ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — Black Hawk helicopters peppered Louisiana’s barrier islands with 1-ton sacks of sand Monday to bolster the state’s crucial wetlands against an epic oil spill, 4 million gallons and growing, in the Gulf […]

Skimming oil spill mostly ineffective; controlled burning destroys more

Coast Guard conducts ‘in situ burn’ of oil spill By Ben RainesMay 11, 2010, 5:00AM One day of controlled burning at the site of the Deepwater Horizon spill apparently destroyed more oil than virtually all of the skimming efforts, according to Press-Register calculations. The drilling rig exploded April 20 and oil began spewing into the […]

Video: Colbert catalogues bizarre oil spill remedies, adds his own

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Oil Containment Solution Randomizer www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Fox News By Jake Simpson on May 11, 2010 11:29am As the oil spill continues to devastate the Gulf of Mexico, efforts to plug the subsurface leak have grown increasingly creative as conventional solutions have […]

More fresh river water sent into coastal marshes to flush oil spill

By (AP) BATON ROUGE, La.Published: Mon, May 10, 2010 – 2:52 pm CST Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Louisiana and parish officials are getting almost all the fresh water they can into southeastern wetlands to try to keep out oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill. Chris Macaluso of the state Office of Coastal Protection and […]

The infertility timebomb: Are men facing rapid extinction?

  By Tamara SturtzLast updated at 3:54 PM on 10th May 2010 One in five men could suffer from fertility problems. And scientists have warned that it’s just going to get worse… There’s a crisis brewing, but it has nothing to do with the economic deficit or the current political uncertainty. Scientists are warning that […]

Droughts causing power blackouts in hydro-dependent Kenya

By MICHAEL BURNHAM AND NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of GreenwirePublished: May 10, 2010 NAIROBI, Kenya — The restaurant manager shrugs as his customers eat in darkness and his kitchen limps along on half power. “What they told us in the newspaper last week was that one section of the city would have a blackout for maintenance purposes, […]

Engineers stymied on how to stop surging Gulf of Mexico oil spill

By Jennifer Lebovich, Michael Newsome and Laura IsenseeMcClatchy Newspapers BILOXI, Miss. — Nineteen days after oil started spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, experts appeared Sunday to have no certain plan for sealing anytime soon a runaway well 5,000 feet below the gulf’s surface. What had been thought to be the best immediate solution to […]

New vision required to stave off dramatic biodiversity loss, says UN report

Nairobi, 10 May 2010 – Natural systems that support economies, lives and livelihoods across the planet are at risk of rapid degradation and collapse unless there is swift, radical and creative action to conserve and sustainably use the variety of life on Earth. This is one principal conclusion of a major new assessment of the […]

Video: Air Force sprays oil dispersant — ‘I don't even know where to pick a spot out, it's everywhere’

U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft aerial spray aircraft maintainers from the 910th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Station, Ohio, remove the ground load station after refilling a C-130 with oil-dispersing chemicals on the runway of the Stennis International Airport, Miss, on May 9, 2010. Members of the 910th Airlift Wing are in […]

Gulf winds turn against BP as oil containment plan snarls

By Edward Klump, Mark Chediak and Aaron Kuriloff – May 10, 2010 Weather forecasts in the Gulf of Mexico indicate shifting winds will push an oil slick toward Louisiana in the next few days after the failure of BP Plc’s latest attempt to stem the gushing oil leak offshore. “The winds may play a huge […]

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