Oil has begun invading beaches in Northwest Florida and is seeping into Pensacola Bay, leading state officials to warn that the Intracoastal Waterway may have to be closed to commercial traffic. Small deposits are already drifting to inland waters, and large concentrations are right off-shore and moving closer with every incoming tide. Closing the Intracoastal […]
MyFoxTampaBay.com staff report Published : Wednesday, 16 Jun 2010, 10:50 PM EDT GULF OF MEXICO – Scientists have spotted a dead sperm whale in the Gulf of Mexico, and are doing tests to see if the oil spill had anything to do with its death. The whale was found floating 77 miles due south of […]
Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again. By JAY REEVES, JOHN FLESHER and TAMARA LUSH Associated Press Writers GULF […]
Oil spill video: Oiled birds on Cat Island By Brian Skoloff and Cain Burdeau of The Associated PressPublished: Monday, June 14, 2010 The sand dunes and islands of Barataria Bay, a huge expanse of water and marsh on Louisiana’s coast, have become the latest casualty of the environmental disaster spewing from BP’s offshore oil well […]
Fort Jackson, Louisiana (AFP) June 10, 2010 – Most oil-struck birds and turtles will die alone and uncounted for at sea or buried in coastal wetlands, amid warnings the true toll from the Gulf of Mexico spill may never be known. “Historically, they estimate that 10 percent of (oiled) birds are found,” said Rebecca Dunne, […]
Grand Isle, Louisiana (AFP) June 14, 2010 – Michael Seymour peers at the oiled pelican floating near an island of mangrove trees and winces in frustration because — once again — there’s absolutely nothing he can do to help. An amber sheen has stained the pelican’s white head and brown chest and wings. But […]
By Doug Fraserdfraser@capecodonline.comJune 13, 2010 Too hot for a lobster? The imagination leaps to boiling water, followed by lots of melted butter. But the water temperatures that are killing off far more lobsters than make it into a cooking pot are of a much lower order. In what could be the first major economic blow […]
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Cambridge, Md. (June 10, 2010) – Acidity is increasing in some regions of the Chesapeake Bay even faster than is occurring in the open ocean, where it is now recognized that increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide dissolve in the seawater thereby making it more acidic. These more acidic conditions in key parts of Chesapeake […]
By Harlan Kirgan, Mississippi PressPublished: Saturday, June 12, 2010, 5:36 AM BILOXI, Miss. — Gooey oil mousse patties and tarballs struck Petit Bois and Horn islands on Friday, and emulsified oil slipped into the Mississippi Sound north of Petit Bois, according to state and federal officials. “We have seen, today, some pretty heavy oiling on […]
