Blogging the End of the World™
Paris (AFP) June 12, 2010 – The North Atlantic Ocean is looking more like a rubbish bin, with plastic and polystyrene flotsom spreading far and wide, according to four French explorers just back from eight months at sea. Once out of the Brittany port of Trinite-sur-Mer in October, they typically spotted at least four […]
ScienceDaily (June 14, 2010) — A team of dedicated South Florida researchers from the University of Miami’s Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (NOAA/AOML) were determined to check on whether oil was, as predicted, being pulled into the Loop Current […]
Oil spill video: Oiled birds on Cat Island By Brian Skoloff and Cain Burdeau of The Associated PressPublished: Monday, June 14, 2010 The sand dunes and islands of Barataria Bay, a huge expanse of water and marsh on Louisiana’s coast, have become the latest casualty of the environmental disaster spewing from BP’s offshore oil well […]
Fort Jackson, Louisiana (AFP) June 10, 2010 – Most oil-struck birds and turtles will die alone and uncounted for at sea or buried in coastal wetlands, amid warnings the true toll from the Gulf of Mexico spill may never be known. “Historically, they estimate that 10 percent of (oiled) birds are found,” said Rebecca Dunne, […]
By Charles Clover June 13, 2010 Off the coast of Cornwall and Devon the mackerel are in. The big shoals of summer have arrived. Over the next few months these tiger-striped, blue-black-and-green relatives of the tuna will forage northwards, eating anything that will maintain their astonishing energy levels. The generous mackerel will oblige inexperienced anglers, […]
The European Commission is closing the bluefin tuna fishing season early because of depleted stocks, imposing a ban that will take effect on Thursday. The ban covers fishing grounds in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic. It affects industrial purse seine fishing, which accounts for more than 70% of the annual EU tuna catch, the Commission […]
Wilkerson on Cheney Pt2: Cheney’s support for pro-industry “regulators” maybe his main damage to America If it was supervised, if it was overseen, if it was regulated by the federal government, Cheney with his marvelous bureaucratic talent moved in and essentially replaced the people who were in the positions that were central to this regulation, […]
Grand Isle, Louisiana (AFP) June 14, 2010 – Michael Seymour peers at the oiled pelican floating near an island of mangrove trees and winces in frustration because — once again — there’s absolutely nothing he can do to help. An amber sheen has stained the pelican’s white head and brown chest and wings. But […]
By Doug Fraserdfraser@capecodonline.comJune 13, 2010 Too hot for a lobster? The imagination leaps to boiling water, followed by lots of melted butter. But the water temperatures that are killing off far more lobsters than make it into a cooking pot are of a much lower order. In what could be the first major economic blow […]
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