Although some US senators may resist discussion of the new climate and energy bill this week, people around the world continue to live with incessant dangers that disrupt their daily lives and threaten their existence. A recent glacier avalanche in Peru, for example, unleashed a powerful outburst flood that caused significant destruction. It was the […]
By Lee Hill City officials in Nashville say the area’s water supply is now “critically low” after a weekend storm dumped a record 13 inches of rainfall over two days. Because of potential shortages, the city’s Metro Water Services utility urges residents to cut down on taking showers and is now directing its customers to […]
By HARRY R. WEBER and CAIN BURDEAU – Associated Press Writers ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — It’s never been tried before, but crews hope to lower a 100-ton concrete-and-steel box a mile under the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday to cut off most of the hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil spewing from […]
By Laurel Brubaker Calkins in Houston Last Updated: May 5, 2010 22:43 EDT May 5 (Bloomberg) — Oil leaking from BP Plc’s damaged Gulf of Mexico well has drifted within 1.5 miles of the buoy marking the entrance to Southwest Pass, the main approach to the Port of New Orleans, a port official said. “I […]
ScienceDaily (May 5, 2010) — Reasonable worst-case scenarios for global warming could lead to deadly temperatures for humans in coming centuries, according to research findings from Purdue University and the University of New South Wales, Australia. Researchers for the first time have calculated the highest tolerable “wet-bulb” temperature and found that this temperature could be […]
By NICKY PHILLIPS AND ERIK JENSENMay 5, 2010 WE HAVE lost the war against our most notorious feral invader. ”The eradication of cane toads is not currently possible,” a federal government report concedes. The admission comes as scientists say a small group of the slimy pests recently discovered in Taren Point in Sydney – originally […]
By Maria Recio, Audra Burch, Joseph Goodman and Jim Wyss – McClatchy Newspapers PANAMA CITY, Fla. — As Mother Nature kept the man-made oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico from making landfall, emergency workers along the Gulf Coast Tuesday stepped up their efforts to defend sensitive shorelines and oil giant BP began what could […]
29 April 2010 4 May 2010 Caption by Holli Riebeek. Record-breaking rain triggered severe and widespread flooding across Tennessee starting on May 1, 2010. This false-color image provides a cloud-free view of the region’s swollen rivers as seen by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on May 4, 2010. Terra […]
Improving weather today allowed both NOAA overflights and dispersant operations to resume. Today, four aircraft applied dispersants to the surface slick, and dispersant application by vessels is expected to begin tomorrow. Monitoring of the dispersant efforts are ongoing. NOAA overflights were conducted over the source as well as south from Mobile. At present, technical specialists […]
By ELISABETH MALKINPublished: May 4, 2010 MIXQUIAHUALA, Mexico — Night and day, Marcelo Mera Bárcenas slops the fetid water that has coursed 60 miles downhill from the sewers of Mexico City and spreads it over the corn and alfalfa fields of this once arid land. From the roads here in the Mezquital Valley, fields stretch […]
