By Press-Register staffMay 04, 2010, 10:38AM MOBILE, Ala. — The latest forecast track from government experts shows the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon site still well offshore of Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle by Thursday evening at 6 p.m. The map, prepared Monday at 11 p.m., uses information from overflights, wind data and […]
May 4, 2010 – 4:50PM (AAP) Work has begun on planting more than 1 million native seedlings in the exposed beds of South Australia’s lower lakes. Federal Water Minister Penny Wong and South Australian Environment Minister Paul Caica said the hand planting would vegetate more than 2300 hectares of exposed lake beds across Lake Alexandrina […]
STRANDED: With nowhere to go they stay on land, creating hazard. By KYLE HOPKINSkhopkins@adn.com Published: May 3rd, 2010 02:23 PMLast Modified: May 3rd, 2010 03:14 PM For $16 an hour, Morgan VanHatten patrolled the streets of Kaktovik in a Ford pickup last fall armed with a 12-gauge shotgun and an iPhone full of Lil Wayne. […]
ScienceDaily (May 4, 2010) — Trees and other plants help keep the planet cool, but rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are turning down this global air conditioner. According to a new study by researchers at the Carnegie Institution for Science, in some regions more than a quarter of the warming from […]
It’s been two weeks since the blowout and explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon. Here are some photos that have emerged recently, showing the scale of the disaster. Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,North America,Gulf of Mexico,pollution
This is a map of the magnitude of the horizontal velocity of the seawater at the indicated depth. Units are meters per second. RTOFS (Atlantic) is a basin-scale ocean forecast system based on the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM). RTOFS (Atlantic) is described in the following paper (PDF): “A Real Time Ocean Forecast System for […]
By MARY PEREZ – meperez@sunherald.com GULFPORT — Long ribbons of oil from the Deepwater spill now wind through the Chandeleur Islands between 35 miles and 55 miles south of Gulfport. On a 90-minute flight from Apollo Aviation in Gulfport Monday afternoon, reporters and photographers from the Sun Herald, New York Times and Los Angles Times […]
The map sequence shows how the oil spill has been spreading in the Gulf of Mexico. Each day’s outline reflects the most current estimate by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the extent of the spill on that day. By The New York Times. Sources: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Coast Guard Tracking […]
By BEN CUBBY, ENVIRONMENT EDITORMay 4, 2010 THE state’s biggest inland bird-breeding sanctuary is nearing collapse due to lack of water, and the bird population is undergoing ”dramatic upheavals” as some species are pushed out, a new report has found. The Macquarie Marshes – a vast, tangled sprawl of creeks and swamps between Nyngan and […]
The ice cap on Uganda’s highest peak has split because of global warming, Uganda’s Wildlife Authority (UWA) says. The glacier is located at an altitude of 5,109m (16,763ft) in the Rwenzori mountain range, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. The authorities say a crevasse has blocked access to the Margherita summit – […]
