By MARK HUME, Globe and MailWednesday, Feb. 23, 2011 9:11PM EST VANCOUVER — When David Hancock saw the bald-eagle count on the Chehalis River drop from more than 7,000 to fewer than 400 over a few days in December, he knew a crisis was coming. Earlier this week, news reports that starving eagles were “falling […]
Source: Congressional Budget Office [pdf] A huge share of the nation’s economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244. Note: The 2007 data (the most current) […]
By Leigh Coleman and Steve Gorman; Editing by Peter Bohan and Greg McCuneTue Feb 22, 2011 8:20pm EST BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) – Marine scientists are examining the deaths of 26 baby dolphins whose carcasses have washed ashore along the U.S. Gulf Coast this year, the bulk of them since last week, researchers said on Tuesday. […]
By BOB HERBERTFebruary 21, 2011 A 46-year-old teacher in Charlotte, Vt., who has been unable to find a full-time job and is weighed down with debt, wrote to his U.S. senator, Bernie Sanders: “I am financially ruined. I find myself depressed and demoralized and my confidence is shattered. Worst of all, as I hear more […]
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science WriterFebruary 20, 2011 Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist’s video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn’t degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor. That report is at […]
Published: Thursday, February 17, 2011, 11:05 PMBy David Hammer, The Times-Picayune New evidence unearthed by investigators shows that in some key moments before the Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, BP leaders were disengaged from critical tests and recognized major problems, but they failed to communicate their concerns or take corrective action. The […]
By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press Tue Feb 15, 3:14 am ET HOUSTON – A former official with BP’s drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico resigned just months before last year’s oil spill because of disagreements with the oil giant over its commitment to safety, according to a class-action federal lawsuit related to the […]
By Isabel de Bertodano15 February 2011 AMECAMECA, Mexico — Glaciers that crown a Mexican volcano could disappear by 2015 with scientists pointing to global warming as a chief cause of their demise. Until recently, the glacial field on Iztaccihuatl, a dormant volcano and one of two white-capped peaks that can be seen from Mexico City, […]
Paper has implications for oxygen depletion, provides photographic evidence of plumes By Sam Fahmy, sfahmy@uga.eduFeb 13, 2011, 13:04 Athens, Ga. – A new University of Georgia study that is the first to examine comprehensively the magnitude of hydrocarbon gases released during the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil discharge has found that up to 500,000 […]
9 Feb 2011, WASHINGTON, DC (The Economist) – MY COLLEAGUES have been discussing climate change, and it’s worth noting that global warming used to be the subject of genuine political debate in Washington as well. Al Gore made a movie about it. Barack Obama vowed to put a stop to it (indeed, he claimed that […]
