By Travis Griggs tgriggs@pnj.com Kimberly Blair kblair@pnj.com • June 1, 2010 Escambia County and Gulf Breeze officials are bracing for the imminent landfall of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill on Pensacola beach and local waterways. “It’s inevitable that we will see it on the beaches,” said Keith Wilkins, Escambia’s deputy chief of neighborhood and […]
By Kimberly Blair • kblair@pnj.com • June 2, 2010 Several people visited Pensacola Beach this morning to get one last look before it could fall victim to the massive oil spill looming off the Gulf Coast. At approximately 10 a.m. there were no signs of tar balls in the sand and no oily sheen on […]
By Rick Jervis, USA TODAY1 June 2010 NEW ORLEANS — Anger and frustration surged across the Gulf Coast on Monday as residents learned that the latest attempt to cap a renegade underwater well had failed and that oil may keep gushing into the Gulf of Mexico until at least August, when relief wells are scheduled […]
By Matthew Cardinale ATLANTA, Georgia, May 31, 2010 (IPS/IFEJ) – As oil continues gushing from the ocean floor into the Gulf of Mexico, with no sign of stopping until a new well is finished this August, scientists, environmentalists and local residents are beginning to reckon with the reality of a massive annihilation of sea creatures […]
By Karin Zeitvogel (AFP) – May 29, 2010 PASS A LOUTRE, Louisiana — Thick black oil hung in the water and stained the bases of the roseau cane at Pass a Loutre, a shrinking patch of Louisiana’s fragile wetlands where crude from the BP spill first hit land and began seeping deep into the fragile […]
By Julia WhittyFri May. 28, 2010 3:29 PM PDT A new model reveals two major hotspots within the Gulf of Mexico where bluefin tuna prefer to spawn in circular swirling water masses known as cyclonic eddies. Sadly, the model also indicates the tuna are spawning there right now—and that the hotspots lie in waters befouled […]
The big Arctic news remains the staggering decline in multiyear ice — and hence ice volume. If we get near the Arctic’s sea ice area (or extent) seen in recent years this summer, then this may well mean record low ice volume — the fourth straight year of low volume. And the latest extent data […]
By Emily DuganSunday May 30, 2010, 1:46 PM The world’s most damaging oil spill – now in its 41st continuously gushing day – is creating huge unseen “dead zones” in the Gulf of Mexico, according to oceanographers and toxicologists. They say that if their fears are correct, then the sea’s entire food chain could suffer […]
By Chris Kirkham, The Times-PicayuneMay 27, 2010, 6:51PM In St. Bernard Parish last weekend, officials identified a patch of oil getting close to marsh grass. But when they requested the skimmer boats they thought were available, they discovered the boats had been moved to Venice. And despite constant warnings from Jefferson Parish officials about oil […]
By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLFMay 27, 2010, 2:57 pm Adm. Thad Allen of the Coast Guard on Thursday approved part of a plan by Louisiana officials to repel oil from the BP spill by building a barrier of dredged sand along islands off the state’s southeast coast. The decision allows Louisiana to immediately begin construction of […]
