Blogging the End of the World™
By The Times-PicayuneMay 16, 2010, 11:50AM BP has successfully inserted a tube into the broken pipe at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and is collecting some, but not all, of the leaking oil, officials said. The Joint Information Center reported that the riser insertion tube tool was successfully tested and inserted into the […]
Vessels wrecked by the elements, scuttled, or sunk by submarines are emptying their dangerous cargoes into the world’s oceans By Andrew JohnsonSunday, 16 May 2010 Environmentalists are becoming increasingly concerned that some of the thousands of wrecked ships around the globe, many of them along Britain’s coastline and dating back to the Second World War, […]
By The Associated PressMay 16, 2010, 9:35AM BP was wrestling for a third day Sunday with its latest contraption for slowing the nearly month-old gusher of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. BP, the largest oil and gas producer in the U.S., has been unable to thread a tube into the leak to siphon […]
NOAA continues to provide scientific support including: modeling the trajectory and location of the oil, getting pre-impact shoreline samples surveys and baseline measurements, and planning for open water and shoreline remediation. NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and NOAA Fisheries Southeast Fisheries Science Center are conducting bottlenose dolphin studies in Mississippi and Louisiana. The […]
By Science journalist Mark Schrope, aboard the research vessel Pelican “You’ve got to see this,” says Vernon Asper, an oceanographer with the National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology team, rushing into the main lab on board the Pelican. Soon after, to those gathering in the small room where readings from the sampling rosette come […]
By Matt WalkerEditor, Earth News Half of all wild canine species such as dogs, foxes and wolves are harvested for traditional folk medicines, conservationists warn. According to a scientific survey, 19 out of 35 known species of wild canid are still used in traditional medicine worldwide. For example, wolf parts are eaten to treat chicken […]
14 May 2010 13 May 2010 The COSMO-SkyMed radar image taken yesterday is somewhat ominous – it shows nearly all of the slick from the ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and at 4,922 square miles (12,748 km2) it’s significantly larger than it appeared on May 13. BP / Gulf oil spill – Slick getting […]
Swaths of the gulf near Louisiana are oxygen-starved, or hypoxic. An annual surge in farm runoff, carried by the Mississippi into the Gulf, feeds algae blooms, which consume available oxygen as they decay. Fish leave the area and bottom-dwelling sea life is stressed or dies. The Gulf, Before the Spill Technorati Tags: ocean anoxia,dead zone,pollution,algae […]
By Christine Dell’Amore, National Geographic News Published May 13, 2010 If efforts fail to cap the leaking Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico (map), oil could gush for years—poisoning coastal habitats for decades, experts say. Last week the joint federal-industry task force charged with managing the spill tried unsuccessfully to lower a 93-ton […]
Four East African states have signed an agreement to seek more water from the River Nile – a move strongly opposed by Egypt and Sudan. Under colonial-era accords, the two countries get 90% of the river’s water. Upstream countries including Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Ethiopia say it is unfair and want a new deal […]
