Blogging the End of the World™
By Tony Paterson in BerlinFriday, 23 July 2010 Record summer temperatures, farm fertilisers and a lack of wind have a gigantic carpet of evil-smelling weed covering large areas of the Baltic and threatening both marine life and seaside tourism, scientists warn. The 377,000 sq km of blue-green algae, covering an area the size of […]
By Casandra Andrews, Press-Register Published: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 1:50 PM MOBILE, Ala. — At least 105 people have gone to local emergency rooms, clinics and urgent care centers since May 14 complaining of ailments thought to be related to the oil spill, Alabama Department of Public Health officials reported today. That compares with 47,316 […]
3 months into Gulf disaster, BP says relief tunnel should reach blown-out well by weekend By COLLEEN LONG and DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press WritersNEW ORLEANS July 21, 2010 (AP) Three months into the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the federal government’s spill chief says a relief tunnel should finally reach BP’s broken well by […]
By ERIKA BOLSTAD, McClatchy NewspapersTuesday, 07.20.10 WASHINGTON — The Bush administration focused from its earliest days on ramping up domestic oil and gas production, charged House Democrats, but at the same time allowed the industry a “dangerous culture of permissiveness” that culminated in the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of […]
By Maria Kolesnikova in Moscow, editors: Brad Cook, Alex Nicholson.July 20, 2010, 8:22 AM EDT July 20 (Bloomberg) — Arctic sea ice is melting faster than expected and this season’s loss may match the record reached three years ago, Russia’s environmental agency said. “Ice in the Arctic is melting very fast,” Federal Hydrometeorological and Environmental […]
By Alexandria Sage; editing by Eric BeechVENICE | Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:33pm EDT VENICE Louisiana (Reuters) – The cattle in these parts don’t seem to mind the helicopters hauling oil booms overhead, nor the response boats hurrying past their banks. But the oil that British energy giant BP is scrambling to clean up from […]
By John PlattJul 20, 2010 05:30 PM Illegal trade in endangered species continues to grow around the world. How big is the problem? Here are 10 major cases that have hit the media in just the past week: Six pallets containing 765 kilograms of elephant tusks worth an estimated $1.2 million were seized in Thailand […]
By Michael McCarthy, Environment EditorWednesday, 21 July 2010 It is the emblematic bird of sexual fidelity – and just like sexual fidelity itself, it is rapidly on the wane. The turtle dove, famed in folklore and literature as the creature which is always constant to its mate, seems to be on the high road […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press contact: Eric Young, NRDC, 202-289-2373 or eyoung@nrdc.org WASHINGTON (July 20, 2010) — More than 1,100 U.S. counties — a full one-third of all counties in the lower 48 states — now face higher risks of water shortages by mid-century as the result of global warming, and more than 400 of these […]
By Nina Chestney; editing by Janet Lawrence (Reuters) – Britain’s coasts have become cleaner but sea levels and temperatures are rising due to climate change, a government report said on Wednesday. The five-year study by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) examined how climate change has affected sea levels and temperatures, […]
