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By Chris Baltimore and Steve Gorman (2010-05-13) HOUSTON/PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana (Reuters) – BP Plc will deploy a small containment dome to try to trap oil from a blown-out undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico in the “next couple of days,” a company spokesman said on Thursday. Earlier, the BP spokesman had told Reuters the […]
Oil and oil sheen from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill are seen moving past an oil rig, top right, in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, Louisiana, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo / Eric Gay) Disaster unfolds slowly in the Gulf of Mexico Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,Gulf of Mexico,North America
By JEFFREY COLLINS (AP) HAMMOND, La. — BP officials say they have decided to first try sucking oil away from the gushing Gulf well with a tube that will be inserted into the jagged pipe leaking on the seafloor. Company spokesman Bill Salvin said BP hopes to start moving the 6-inch tube into the leaking […]
Mark Fiore Technorati Tags: oil spill,oil production,pollution,Gulf of Mexico,North America
Phnom Penh, Cambodia (UPI) May 12, 2010 – Sand dredging in Cambodia, fueled by Singapore’s expansion and land reclamation projects, poses a huge risk to Cambodia’s coastal environment, says a new report. In its Shifting Sands report [pdf], environmental group Global Witness estimates that as much as 796,000 tons of sand is being removed […]
Yunnan’s worst drought for many years has been exacerbated by destruction of forest cover and a history of poor water management. By Jane Qiu in Beijing Born into a farming family in south Yunnan province, China, Zhu Youyong’s life has always been tied to the soil. At the age of 54, however, Zhu — now […]
By Chris Kromm on May 13, 2010 10:32 AM While bits and pieces of the Gulf oil spill have already reached shore, new federal maps show that the larger floating mass of oil generated by the disaster is poised to strike the coast over the next three days. Each day, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
By Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York on 05.12.10 Dauphin Island, right off the coast of Alabama, was one of the first places to report oil making landfall on its shores. The oil hit Dauphin’s beach in the form of small tar balls — similar to those I found washing up on the shore of Louisiana. […]
May 11, 2010 (Reuters) — India’s greenhouse gas emissions grew 58 per cent between 1994 and 2007, official figures released on Tuesday showed, underlining the country’s growing importance in the fight against climate change. Emissions rose to 1.9 billion tonnes in 2007 versus 1.2 billion in 1994, with the industrial and transport sectors upping their […]
By Michael Isikoff and Michael Hirsh | NEWSWEEKPublished May 7, 2010From the magazine issue dated May 17, 2010 Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP, has a couple of major problems on his hands these days. One lies down near the earth’s crust; the other exists deep in the muck of Washington politics. It may take […]
