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By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.comJune 09, 2010 A number of reports over the last decade have shown amphibians, lizards, fish, and birds facing steep population declines across species and continents, providing further evidence that the planet is undergoing a mass extinction. Now a new study in Biology Letters adds another group of animals to that […]
By Ben Raines Published: Wednesday, June 09, 2010, 5:12 PM Scientists measured two areas of low oxygen off the Alabama coast Tuesday, finding levels below the threshold that marine creatures need to survive. The first low-oxygen pocket was found on the bottom in about 60 feet of water 12 miles off the coast due south […]
By Peter Aldhous , Phil McKenna and Caitlin Stier 09 June 2010 * 16:14 THE Deepwater Horizon blowout is the largest oil spill in US history, but its ecological impact need not be the worst. It all hinges on the amount and composition of the oil that reaches the Gulf of Mexico’s most sensitive habitat: […]
By Jorge Estevez PENSACOLA (CBS4) — Fifty days into the oil spill crisis, NOAA has confirmed that underwater oil plumes are spreading as far as 142 miles from the Deepwater Horizon spill. Officials with President Barack Obama’s administration says the containment cap put over the spill is showing promise; now, officials are concerned about the […]
www.msnbc.com staff and news service reports Clouds of oil have been found drifting underwater in the Gulf of Mexico as far as 142 miles from the wrecked Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, government officials said Tuesday. At a briefing, Jane Lubchenko, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), said that tests conducted at three sites […]
Giant plumes of crude oil mixed with methane are sweeping the ocean depths with devastating consequences. ‘I’m not too worried about oil on the surface,’ says one scientist. ‘It’s the things we don’t see that worry me the most.’ By Sharon Begley, with Ian Yarett in New York and Daniel Stone in WashingtonJune 06, 2010 […]
The sovereign debt crisis that began with a spark in Dubai and a fire in Greece, fanning out to a wildfire in southern Europe, is spreading again. And its impact is being felt far and wide. Fitch Ratings today warned Britain’s new Prime Minister David Cameron to quickly get his fiscal house in order, saying […]
By Katia Moskvitch Science reporter, BBC News Page last updated at 4:14 GMT, Monday, 7 June 2010 5:14 UK Great apes were wiped out in ancient Europe when their environment changed drastically some nine million years ago, scientists say. A study of fossil teeth from grazing animals sheds light on what Europe was like during […]
By Samantha Joye | Published: June 6, 2010 12:17am June 5th, 18:34. The plume was hiding. We anticipated that the flow trajectory of the oil and gas discharging from the leaking riser pipe would change after the pipe was cut but it was tough to predict which way the flow would go. We had a […]
