Blogging the End of the World™
By Kim Chipman and Jim Polson May 14 (Bloomberg) — For Tammy Wolfer of Louisiana, the worst part about the oil slick looming off the Gulf of Mexico coast isn’t that it cut her income from working at a marina and ruined plans to buy a house this year. The worst part is waiting to […]
(AP) Undersea robots tried to thread a small tube into the jagged pipe that is pouring oil into the Gulf of Mexico early Friday in BP’s latest attempt to cut down on the spill from a blown-out well that has pumped out more than 4 million gallons of crude. The company was trying to move […]
By Bob BealeMay 4, 2010 (PhysOrg.com) — The slow death of one of Australia’s iconic wetlands is causing dramatic upheavals in its bird populations, with species from surrounding farmland moving in to replace many small woodland birds as they lose their habitat, a new study has found. Their loss is adding to the widespread decline […]
By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-PicayuneMay 13, 2010, 8:56PM The 700-pound giant Atlantic bluefin tuna carrying satellite radio tag number 5108024 entered the Gulf of Mexico on March 23, 2009, hugging the coast of Cuba, and speeding along a straight line to the warm water body’s center. The huge fish meandered north toward what would become […]
By Robert Zullo, City Editor Published: Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 7:14 p.m. HOUMA — State officials closed an oyster bed off Terrebonne’s southern coast Thursday night, the latest in a dozen areas shut down as a result of the spreading oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. Designated Area 17, the oyster bed south […]
By Frank James and Allison Richards May 13, 2010, 7:02 pm NPR has learned that much more oil, 70,000 barrels a day or more than ten times the official estimate, is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon pipe, based on scientific analysis of the video released Wednesday. That’s the equivalent of […]
Today, Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Administrator of NOAA, participated in a media briefing on the use of dispersants with EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, Dave Westerholm, the Director of NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration, and others. Mary Glackin, Deputy Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere; Buck Sutter, Gulf of Mexico Regional Team Lead, National Marine […]
ScienceDaily (May 13, 2010) — For many lizards, global climate change is a matter of life and death. After decades of surveying Sceloporus lizard populations in Mexico, an international research team has found that rising temperatures have driven 12 percent of the country’s lizard populations to extinction. An extinction model based on this discovery […]
By The Associated PressMay 13, 2010, 2:01PM Louisiana officials say oily debris from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has washed up on Raccoon Island. The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries describes the island as one of the coast’s most important waterbird nesting areas. It’s just west of Whiskey Island, where authorities said Wednesday […]
By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The monthly cost of the war in Afghanistan, driven by troop increases and fighting on difficult terrain, has topped Iraq costs for the first time since 2003 and shows no sign of letting up. Pentagon spending in February, the most recent month available, was $6.7 billion in Afghanistan […]
