Blogging the End of the World™
By Frank Pope, Ocean Correspondent Conservationists fear a falling shark population is prompting Asian chefs to look for manta and devil rays to help meet the voracious demand for shark fin soup. Found in coastal waters throughout the world, rays present an easy target as they swim slowly near the surface with their huge wings. […]
By GREG BLUESTEIN and BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writers PORT FOURCHON, La. – The risky effort to contain the Gulf oil gusher hit a snag Wednesday when a saw became stuck in a thick pipe on a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said the goal was to free […]
By Jeremy Hancewww.mongabay.comJune 02, 2010 According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, snow cover retreated to the lowest extent ever recorded in North America by the end of this April. Snow cover was 2.2 million square kilometers below average. With records of snow extent beginning in 1967, this is the lowest in 43 […]
By Peter Foster in BeijingPublished: 11:35AM BST 02 Jun 2010 China is to further tighten its stranglehold on the mining of rare earth metals essential for the manufacture of high-tech products from iPods to wind turbines and military missiles. Mining rights for the 17 rare earth elements will now be restricted to only a […]
By David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet EilperinWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, May 28, 2010; 4:37 PM A day after scientists reported finding a huge “plume” of oil extending miles east of the leaking BP well, on Friday a Louisiana scientist said his crew had located another vast plume of oily globs, miles in the opposite direction. […]
The riser pipe of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil well, moments before it was cut by the giant shear. The riser pipe of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil well, moments after it was cut by the giant shear. Deepwater BP Oil Spill Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,North America,Gulf of Mexico
By Joe Weisenthal and Gus Lubin | Jun. 1, 2010, 1:44 PM UPDATE II: BP spokesperson John Curry denied reports of any problems with the Lower Marine Rise Package, which begins drilling today. Reports that BP had canceled all rescue plans were based on a headline from Bloomberg: “Efforts to End Oil Flow From BP’s […]
By Rick Jervis, USA TODAY1 June 2010 NEW ORLEANS — Anger and frustration surged across the Gulf Coast on Monday as residents learned that the latest attempt to cap a renegade underwater well had failed and that oil may keep gushing into the Gulf of Mexico until at least August, when relief wells are scheduled […]
By Jim Polson – Jun 1, 2010 BP Plc has decided not to attach a second blowout preventer on its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico and efforts to end the flow are over until the relief wells are finished, according to the U.S. Coast Guard’s Thad Allen, who spoke at a press conference […]
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Published: May 31, 2010 MUKONO, Uganda — Lynet Nalugo dug a cassava tuber out of her field and sliced it open. Inside its tan skin, the white flesh was riddled with necrotic brown lumps, as obviously diseased as any tuberculosis lung or cancerous breast. “Even the pigs refuse this,” she said. […]
