By Brett IsraelLiveScience Staff Writer The South Pole experienced its warmest year on record in 2009, according to newly released data from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The average temperature at the South Pole last year was still a bone-chilling minus 54.2 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 47.9 degrees Celsius) in 2009, making it the warmest year […]
BP continues to work on solving the problem of ice-like methane hydrate crystals that accumulated inside of the dome intended to capture the leaking oil. A process known as a “junk shot”, in which debris is injected into the blow out preventer, is being examined. The drilling of the relief wells continues. The latest trajectory […]
PORT FOURCHON, La. (May 10, 2010) — Crews of Black Hawk helicopters were picking up sandbags Monday to be dropped on five points east of Port Fourchon in an effort aimed at protecting Lafourche Parish marshes from the massive oil slick. The spill began creeping farther west of the Mississippi River last week. On Sunday, […]
By Joel AchenbachWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, May 5, 2010 The urgent question along the polluted Gulf of Mexico: How bad will this get? No one knows, but with each day that the leaking oil well a mile below the surface remains uncapped, scientists and energy industry observers are imagining outcomes that range from bad to […]
By Marc KaufmanMay 9, 2010; 11:38 AM ET As oil from the Deepwater Horizon gushes out and spreads, one noble creature that few would imagine is in grave danger is a subspecies of the huge and officially endangered sperm whale. A population estimated to be around 500 is known to live in the deep waters […]
By Staff Writers Venice, Louisiana (AFP) May 6, 2010 – Oil may not yet be washing ashore in large quantities in Louisiana but an environmental disaster is already unfolding deep down in the Gulf of Mexico and in the swirling currents on its surface, experts warned Thursday. “Everyone is focusing on the beaches and […]
By John Platt Finland’s Lake Saimaa is home to one of the world’s rarest seals, the Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis). Just 260 or so of these critically endangered animals remain in the freshwater lake, and now the European Union has told Finland that the country is not doing enough to protect the species. […]
(Reuters) – A glacier in Greenland slides up to 220 percent faster toward the sea in summer than in winter and global warming could mean a wider acceleration that would raise sea levels, according to a study published Sunday. A group of experts led by Ian Bartholomew at Edinburgh University in Scotland said the […]
By Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York on 05. 9.10 The debate over whether or not oil from the massive slick in the Gulf of Mexico would wash ashore on the mainland is over: It already has, and I’ve got the pictures to prove it. The hundreds-of-miles-wide spill has been well documented, but so far no […]
By HARRY R. WEBER and RAY HENRY, Associated Press WritersSunday, May 9, 2010 (05-09) 17:41 PDT ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — A day after icy slush clogged the massive box they hoped would contain an out-of-control oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, BP officials on Sunday said they may try again — […]
