By Carolyn Y. JohnsonBoston Globe Staff / July 6, 2010 HARWICH — For the past seven years, scientists have been alarmed by the mysterious death of marsh grasses on Cape Cod, which is transforming expanses of lush green wetlands into lumpy mudflats with the appearance of Swiss cheese. Work over the past few years has […]
By Matthew Hinton, The Times-PicayunePosted: Monday, July 05, 2010, 8:06 PM A tar ball from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washed ashore near the Treasure Island subdivision in Lake Pontchartrain as people fish near the Rigolets in Slidell, Monday July 5, 2010. MATTHEW HINTON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Oil has reached Lake Pontchartrain Technorati Tags: oil […]
Sea Shepherd CEO, Steve Roest, flies at an undisclosed altitude to examine the situation in the Gulf. Watch as he narrates his account. Sea Shepherd Flies Over the gulf ***Exclusive footage*** Technorati Tags: oil spill,oil production,pollution,Gulf of Mexico,North America,wetland,habitat loss,ecosystem disruption
By Len Bahr, Contributing Op-Ed columnist, www.LaCoastPost.com Published: Monday, July 05, 2010, 6:00 PM The coast of Louisiana occupies North America’s largest delta, which has been rapidly shrinking and sinking for a century. River channelization, flood levees, upriver dams and coastal oil and gas production continue to take their toll. But a decade from now, […]
This year will almost certainly set the record for lowest Arctic ice volume ever recorded (see “When things were rotten“). But whether it will set the less important — but more visible — record for sea ice extent is less certain. You can see how close 2010 is to 2007 now. On the one hand, […]
Bodo, Nigeria (AFP) July 2, 2010 – The waters around the Niger Delta swamps of Bodo are covered in a thick film of oil that has left the once lush mangroves looking like burnt twigs covered in grease. The air reeks of crude. “I struggle everyday,” said fisherman Gaagaa Giadom, 60, paddling his blackened canoe […]
Governor Jindal’s proposal to build a wall of sand berms to keep oil out of Louisiana’s marshes and off its shores has gotten a lot of media coverage, most of it supportive. A growing number of experts have voiced serious concerns or outright opposition to the plan (1). Both they and the public have been […]
By Les Blumenthal | McClatchy NewspapersPosted on Sunday, July 4, 2010 WASHINGTON — A sobering new report warns that the oceans face a “fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation” not seen in millions of years as greenhouse gases and climate change already have affected temperature, acidity, sea and oxygen levels, the food chain and possibly major […]
By Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Times-PicayunePublished: Sunday, July 04, 2010, 10:44 AM Some days, the oil sent a pungent odor over city streets, causing people headaches. Always, there was fear. Residents worried the crude would forever foul the sandy beaches dotting their shores and wipe out habitat for shrimp and fish in a place where […]
By PATRICK REIS AND ALLISON WINTER of GreenwirePublished: July 2, 2010 Scientists are working to lure migrating birds away from the oil in the Gulf of Mexico and toward safe habitat. At stake is the well-being of more than 50 million birds migrating south to or through the Gulf over the next six months, with […]
