WASHINGTON, DC, April 29, 2010 (ENS) – World leaders have failed to fulfill their commitments to reduce the global rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, and have instead overseen “alarming” biodiversity declines, finds the first assessment of how the targets expressed in the 2002 Convention on Biological Diversity have not been met. Since 1970, human […]
By Juanita Cousins • The TennesseanMay 2, 2010, UPDATED 7:30pm A number of water main breaks and sewage treatment problems are being reported across Middle Tennessee. According to, Tisha Calabrese-Benton, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, water main breaks in the city of Brentwood and Humphreys and Maury counties are threatening fresh […]
The world may be on the brink of biological disaster after news that a third of US bee colonies did not survive the winter By Alison BenjaminThe Observer, Sunday 2 May 2010 Disturbing evidence that honeybees are in terminal decline has emerged from the United States where, for the fourth year in a row, more […]
By Staff WritersAlumot, Israel (AFP) May 3, 2010 The once mighty Jordan River, where Christians believe Jesus was baptised, is now little more than a polluted stream that could die next year unless the decay is halted, environmentalists said on Monday. The famed river “has been reduced to a trickle south of the Sea of […]
By Cahal Milmo Monday, 3 May 2010 The English oak, the quintessential native tree which saved a monarch and defines the British landscape, is under grave threat from a little-understood new disease that forestry experts fear is spreading far more rapidly across the country than previously estimated. Acute oak decline (AOD), which is thought […]
By Dan Swenson, The Times-PicayuneMay 02, 2010, 11:49AM This animation of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was created using actual overflight information and forecast models from the NOAA and Unified Command. The red dot is the location of the Deepwater Horizon oil well, which exploded on April 20, releasing oil into the Gulf near […]
By MELISSA NELSON (AP) MOBILE, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Bob Riley says most of the inflatable booms deployed to catch the oil spill are breaking down, forcing crews to rework their contingency plan. Riley said Sunday that 80 percent of the thousands of feet of booms the Coast Guard and other crews have laid […]
By The Associated PressMay 02, 2010, 3:55PM PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. — Gus Holliman has spent the last two days riding the beaches in this coastal Mississippi town, hoping not to find dead animals. On Saturday the sea turtles started washing up on shore. On Sunday, the turtles were joined by dead catfish, horseshoe crabs, and […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 30, 2010 (ENS) – Bird conservationists fear the spreading Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will affect not only local birds but migratory bird populations as far north as Canada and Alaska, and as far south as South America. The oil spill, now 100 miles long by 48 […]
Dr. Ian MacDonald at FSU just produced a new spill-size estimate based on the US Coast Guard aerial overflight map of the oil slick on April 28, 2010. The bottom line: that map implies that on April 28, there was a total of 8.9 million gallons floating on the surface of the Gulf. That implies […]
