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By HARRY R. WEBER (AP) ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — A BP spokesman says a second, smaller oil containment box known as a “top hat” is being brought to the site of a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. Spokesman Bill Salvin tells The Associated Press the box will be lowered to the […]
NEW ORLEANS, May 11 /PRNewswire/ — The chemical dispersants being used to break up the oil leaking into the gulf following the explosion of British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig have the potential to cause just as much, if not more, harm to the environment and the humans coming into contact with it than […]
(Mainichi Japan) May 11, 2010 TOKYO (Kyodo) — The population of large-sized Pacific bluefin tuna with reproductive capacity is shrinking at an alarming rate, in a sign they may face a crisis similar to the one their Atlantic peers are facing, according to a recent study by Japanese researchers. The results indicate the need to […]
By Harry R. Weber and John CurranThe Associated Press Published: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 12:45 p.m. ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — Black Hawk helicopters peppered Louisiana’s barrier islands with 1-ton sacks of sand Monday to bolster the state’s crucial wetlands against an epic oil spill, 4 million gallons and growing, in the Gulf […]
Coast Guard conducts ‘in situ burn’ of oil spill By Ben RainesMay 11, 2010, 5:00AM One day of controlled burning at the site of the Deepwater Horizon spill apparently destroyed more oil than virtually all of the skimming efforts, according to Press-Register calculations. The drilling rig exploded April 20 and oil began spewing into the […]
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Oil Containment Solution Randomizer www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Fox News By Jake Simpson on May 11, 2010 11:29am As the oil spill continues to devastate the Gulf of Mexico, efforts to plug the subsurface leak have grown increasingly creative as conventional solutions have […]
By (AP) BATON ROUGE, La.Published: Mon, May 10, 2010 – 2:52 pm CST Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Louisiana and parish officials are getting almost all the fresh water they can into southeastern wetlands to try to keep out oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill. Chris Macaluso of the state Office of Coastal Protection and […]
By Tamara SturtzLast updated at 3:54 PM on 10th May 2010 One in five men could suffer from fertility problems. And scientists have warned that it’s just going to get worse… There’s a crisis brewing, but it has nothing to do with the economic deficit or the current political uncertainty. Scientists are warning that […]
By MICHAEL BURNHAM AND NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of GreenwirePublished: May 10, 2010 NAIROBI, Kenya — The restaurant manager shrugs as his customers eat in darkness and his kitchen limps along on half power. “What they told us in the newspaper last week was that one section of the city would have a blackout for maintenance purposes, […]
By Jennifer Lebovich, Michael Newsome and Laura IsenseeMcClatchy Newspapers BILOXI, Miss. — Nineteen days after oil started spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, experts appeared Sunday to have no certain plan for sealing anytime soon a runaway well 5,000 feet below the gulf’s surface. What had been thought to be the best immediate solution to […]
