A Brown Pelican sits in heavy oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo / Charlie Riedel) Caught in the oil Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,North America,Gulf of Mexico,bird decline,wetland,ecosystem disruption,habitat loss
BY Matthew Lysiak In Grand Isle, La. and Helen Kennedy, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERSWednesday, June 2nd 2010, 12:52 AM Here’s what President Obama didn’t see when he visited the Gulf Coast: a dead dolphin rotting in the shore weeds. “When we found this dolphin it was filled with oil. Oil was just pouring out of […]
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 […]
