By CAIN BURDEAU and SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press Writers Mon Sep 13, 5:00 pm ET NEW ORLEANS – Far beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, deeper than divers can go, scientists say they are finding oil from the busted BP well on the sea’s muddy and mysterious bottom. Oil at least two inches […]
UPISept. 13, 2010 at 4:23 PM BREMERHAVEN, Germany, Sept. 13 (UPI) — The ice around the North Pole has experienced another severe meltdown this year, German scientists said. Around 1.9 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean will be covered by ice by the end of this summer, the third-lowest figure since satellite monitoring began […]
By Cain Burdeau, Associated Press Thursday, September 09, 2010, 8:45 PM Federal environmental regulators are blasting Gov. Bobby Jindal’s $360 million plan to block oil from the BP spill with sand berms, saying barriers built so far are ineffective and threaten wildlife. In a Sept. 7 letter made public Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency urged […]
Times-Picayune Staff Published: Monday, September 13, 2010, 7:25 PM Plaquemines Parish Wednesday, 8 September 2010 Submerged oil stirred up by boat 4.6 miles northwest of the Grand Gosier Islands. Submerged oil stirred up by boat 7.6 miles east of the Breton Islands. Oil sheen 1.75 miles northeast of the mouth of the Kimbel Pass. Oil […]
By Bob Warren, The Times-PicayuneMonday, September 13, 2010, 3:42 PM Plaquemines Parish officials have asked state wildlife officials to investigate what they said is a massive fish kill at Bayou Chaland on the west side of the Mississippi River late Friday. Photographs the parish distributed of the area shows an enormous amount of dead fish […]
By Michael Graham RichardThu Sep 9, 2010 16:14 More than 180 scientists and government officials have recently gathered in Boston for the 7th International Penguin Conference. The conclusions of the conference are rather alarming: the scientists warn that 10 of the 18 penguin species are experiencing population decline and that a variety of things are […]
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By Nick Sundt 11 September 2010 Alaska Dispatch in Anchorage reported yesterday (10 September 2010) in Massive walrus haulout observed near Point Lay, Alaska that USGS researchers were estimating that “anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000” walruses now have hauled out along Alaska’s Chukchi coastline. “Walruses have been known to haul out onto land in large […]
University of Georgia researcher says samples are showing oil from the spill By MATT GUTMAN and KEVIN DOLAKSept. 12, 2010 Oil from the BP spill has not been completely cleared, but miles of it is sitting at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a study currently under way. Professor Samantha Joye of […]
By David BielloSeptember 12, 2010 In 2005, coral reefs throughout the Caribbean faced an epic heat wave—underwater. Sea surface temperatures stayed at record high levels for more than three months in some locations and as much as 60 percent of corals died as a result. Most bleached, expelling the symbiotic algae that feed them, turning […]
