By NOAKI SCHWARTZ and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers Published : Saturday, 08 May 2010, 4:00 PM CDT ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) – A Coast Guard official says tar balls that are believed to be from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are washing up on an Alabama island. Coast Guard chief […]
The unified command reports that more than 8,500 responders are working on the incident, and approximately 1.89 million gallons of oily liquid have been recovered. Overflight and shoreline surveys have found emulsified oil within the Breton National Wildlife Refuge. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service closed the Refuge today to allow personnel conducting cleanup operations […]
Our friends at CSTARS just posted this stunning image. Taken by the Canadian-operated radar satellite, RADARSAT-2, it clearly shows oil slicks and sheen spread across a wide area in the Gulf of Mexico early this morning (May 8): We’ve added some analysis to help you armchair interpreters. Oil slicks look dark on radar images because […]
By David Wethe May 8 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc said gas hydrates like ice crystals formed inside the steel chamber it’s trying to use to capture leaking oil from a Gulf of Mexico well, forcing the company to move the structure aside while working on ways to stanch the flow of crude. The hydrates clogged […]
The Coast Guard conducts more controlled burns of oil slicks from the Gulf of Mexico, 8 May 2010. Associated Press. Raw Video: Burning the Oil Off the Water DeepwaterHorizonJIC — May 08, 2010 — GULF OF MEXICO – The U.S. Coast Guard, working in partnership with BP PLC, local residents, and other federal agencies, […]
By: Chris Amico Last updated 12:30pm ET on May 6. Nobody knows for certain how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since last month’s oil rig explosion. What we do have are estimates — from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, from outside experts, from British Petroleum — of how fast crude […]
By WAYNE PARRYAssociated Press Writerupdated 1:42 p.m. PT, Fri., May 7, 2010 LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Radioactive water that leaked from the nation’s oldest nuclear power plant has now reached a major underground aquifer that supplies drinking water to much of southern New Jersey, the state’s environmental chief said Friday. The state Department of Environmental […]
Associated Press Reporting Saturday, 08 May 2010 11:30AM Louisiana and parish officials have opened six gates through Mississippi River levees to send fresh water into wetlands and try to keep out oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill. According to the state Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration, the six diversion structures are now pouring […]
By Joe RommMay 8, 2010 Where did all the snow go? I mean, it was here just a minute ago, uber-fodder for the anti-science crowd (see Was the “Blizzard of 2009″ a “global warming type” of record snowfall — or an opportunity for the media to blow the extreme weather story (again)? and Massive moisture-driven […]
SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, May 6, 2020 (ENS) – To mark World Migratory Bird Day this Sunday, the nongovernmental organization Nature Iraq is joining its BirdLife International partners around the world to celebrate bird migration, and to highlight the difficulties facing some the world’s most threatened species. The Mesopotamian marshes in the region of southern Iraq between […]
