Blogging the End of the World™
Submitted by Deborah Mitchell on 2010-06-05 Cleanup workers associated with the Gulf oil spill are complaining of various flu-like symptoms, and about a dozen have been treated in area hospitals, according to recent news reports. The complaints are similar to those made by workers who cleaned up the Valdez oil spill about two decades ago, […]
By The Associated PressJune 05, 2010, 4:15PM The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality. Pelicans struggle to free themselves from oil, thick as tar, that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, feathers dripping with crude. Dead birds and dolphins […]
By The Associated PressJune 04, 2010, 11:34AM GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — Small gobs of reddish brown oil washed up in the surf for the first time Friday on the public beach at Gulf Shores, where the scent of oil hung in the air. “You don’t smell the beach breeze at all,” said Wendi Butler, […]
By The Associated PressJune 05, 2010, 10:46AM By Seth Borenstein, AP Writer They are the ghastly images of a summer fouled before it started. Squawking seagulls and majestic brown pelicans coated in oil. Click. Gunk dripping from their beaks. Click. Big eyes wide open. Click. Even the professionals want to turn away. They can’t. “They […]
This figure shows how average temperatures worldwide have changed since 1901. Surface global data come from a combined set of land-based weather stations and sea surface temperature measurements, while satellite measurements cover the lower troposphere, which is the lowest level of the Earth’s atmosphere (see diagram on p. 20). “UAH” and “RSS” represent two different […]
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOSASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SPOKANE, Wash. — Researchers have embarked on an ambitious study to track the health of thousands of high school graduates over a half century in a Montana town where a toxic mine has killed hundreds of people and made it the deadliest Superfund site in the nation. People […]
Published: 7:00AM BST 03 Jun 2010 Starvation Island in northern Zimbabwe is living up to its name as rising lake waters have submerged large tracts of grazing land relied on by hundreds of animals. The island has shrunk to about one-third of its original size after record seasonal rains from central Africa drained into the […]
By John Platt Jun 4, 2010 10:00 AM Imagine having a pet in your family for 79 years and through four generations. Now imagine that during that time your pet became an endangered species. Finally, imagine having that pet stolen from your backyard. That’s what happened to Harry Barritt of London’s Bromley borough. His family’s […]
By Alister Doyle, Environment CorrespondentOSLOThu Jun 3, 2010 2:03pm EDT OSLO (Reuters) – Brazilian farmers are setting more fires in parts of the Amazon where deforestation has slowed, according to a study on Thursday that shows weaknesses in a U.N. plan for slowing climate change. Big fires, set by farmers to clear land for agriculture, […]
SEAL, a French transport company, is scheduled to ship 79 containers of rosewood tomorrow from the port of Toamasina on its vessel Terra Bona, reports Midi Madagascar. The shipment comes less than three months after Madagascar’s ruling authority banned timber exports after international uproar over the organized logging of the country’s national parks in […]
