Contact: Karen Hinton at 703-798-3109 or Karen@hintoncommunications.com 17 September 2010 Lago Agrio, Ecuador (September 17) – A group of highly respected American technical and medical experts, using conservative assumptions, have concluded that it could cost Chevron up to tens of billions of dollars to clean up oil waste discharged into Ecuador’s rainforest and compensate local […]
29 August 2010 (PBSG) – A status table was first discussed and published at the 11th meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) in Copenhagen in 1993. The present table was discussed and concluded upon in Copenhagen in 2009, and some small updates on the comments was done in March 2010. Summary of polar […]
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2010 – Scientists have for the first time estimated the physical footprint of human activities on the deep seafloor of the North East Atlantic. The findings published in the journal PLoS ONE reveal that the area disturbed by bottom trawling commercial fishing fleets exceeds the combined physical footprint of other […]
ScienceDaily (Sep. 14, 2010) — Researchers have revealed an ominous finding: most of the world’s last remaining tigers — long decimated by overhunting, logging, and wildlife trade — are now clustered in just six percent of their available habitat. The securing of the tiger’s remaining source sites is the most effective and efficient way of […]
By Joe RommSeptember 14, 2010 Last week, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) director Mark Serreze said, “Every bit of evidence we have says the ice is thinning.” Monday, NSIDC scientist Julienne Stroeve sent me this figure from a forthcoming article using data provided by J. Maslanik and C. Fowler. This is the end-of-winter […]
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 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 […]
