By Justin Nobel05/08/2010 Birds in the Gulf of Mexico have a new enemy: the press. Media aircraft have been conducting illegal flights and disturbing birds over Breton National Wildlife Refuge, an Important Bird Area off the east coast of Louisiana where oil from the leaking BP wellhead has been washing ashore. “We’ve done all this […]
By NOAKI SCHWARTZ and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers Published : Saturday, 08 May 2010, 4:00 PM CDT ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) – A Coast Guard official says tar balls that are believed to be from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are washing up on an Alabama island. Coast Guard chief […]
The unified command reports that more than 8,500 responders are working on the incident, and approximately 1.89 million gallons of oily liquid have been recovered. Overflight and shoreline surveys have found emulsified oil within the Breton National Wildlife Refuge. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service closed the Refuge today to allow personnel conducting cleanup operations […]
Associated Press Reporting Saturday, 08 May 2010 11:30AM Louisiana and parish officials have opened six gates through Mississippi River levees to send fresh water into wetlands and try to keep out oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill. According to the state Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration, the six diversion structures are now pouring […]
SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, May 6, 2020 (ENS) – To mark World Migratory Bird Day this Sunday, the nongovernmental organization Nature Iraq is joining its BirdLife International partners around the world to celebrate bird migration, and to highlight the difficulties facing some the world’s most threatened species. The Mesopotamian marshes in the region of southern Iraq between […]
By Debbie WilliamsPublished: Fri, May 07, 2010 – 7:18 pm CST DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama – Scientist from Dauphin Island Sea Lab took water samples earlier this week off the coast of Dauphin Island and found oily residue floating just below the surface. It maybe the first signs of the oil spill off Alabama’s coast. Thirty-five […]
Caption by Holli Riebeek Light tan streamers snake across Chandeleur Sound in this detailed natural-color satellite image from May 5, 2010. The streamers are probably ropes of oil from a leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico. The streamers surround Freemason Island and arc through Chandeleur Sound west of the Chandeleur Islands. The image is […]
As the nation’s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the Deepwater Horizon spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,North America,Gulf of Mexico,wetland,habitat loss,ecosystem disruption
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By Cain Burdeau And Harry R. Weber NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The oil you can’t see could be as bad as the oil you can. While people anxiously wait for the slick in the Gulf of Mexico to wash up along the coast, globules of oil are already falling to the bottom of the sea, […]
