Special Report: Delaware Drinking Water at Risk — What you haven’t been told about chemicals polluting the aquifer that serves Del., Md., N.J. By JEFF MONTGOMERY, The News JournalJuly 25, 2010 Tainted groundwater is spreading across thousands of acres in northern Delaware and has reached the Potomac Aquifer, which supplies drinking water to people across […]
By Abe Louise YoungPublished on Friday, July 23, 2010 In the first few days after BP’s Deepwater Horizon wellhead exploded, spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, cleanup workers could be seen on Louisiana beaches wearing scarlet pants and white t-shirts with the words “Inmate Labor” printed in large red block letters. Coastal residents, […]
This figure shows the percentage of the land area of the lower 48 states that experienced much greater than normal precipitation in any given year, which means it scored 2.0 or above on the annual Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI). The thicker orange line shows a nine-year moving average that smooths out some of the year-to-year […]
Loss of sea ice is unlikely to enable Arctic waters to mop up more carbon dioxide from the air. By Hannah Hoag As climate scientists watched the Arctic’s sea-ice cover shrink year after year, they thought there might be a silver lining: an ice-free Arctic Ocean could soak up large amounts of CO2 from the […]
By Casandra Andrews, Press-Register Published: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 1:50 PM MOBILE, Ala. — At least 105 people have gone to local emergency rooms, clinics and urgent care centers since May 14 complaining of ailments thought to be related to the oil spill, Alabama Department of Public Health officials reported today. That compares with 47,316 […]
3 months into Gulf disaster, BP says relief tunnel should reach blown-out well by weekend By COLLEEN LONG and DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press WritersNEW ORLEANS July 21, 2010 (AP) Three months into the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the federal government’s spill chief says a relief tunnel should finally reach BP’s broken well by […]
By ERIKA BOLSTAD, McClatchy NewspapersTuesday, 07.20.10 WASHINGTON — The Bush administration focused from its earliest days on ramping up domestic oil and gas production, charged House Democrats, but at the same time allowed the industry a “dangerous culture of permissiveness” that culminated in the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of […]
By Alexandria Sage; editing by Eric BeechVENICE | Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:33pm EDT VENICE Louisiana (Reuters) – The cattle in these parts don’t seem to mind the helicopters hauling oil booms overhead, nor the response boats hurrying past their banks. But the oil that British energy giant BP is scrambling to clean up from […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press contact: Eric Young, NRDC, 202-289-2373 or eyoung@nrdc.org WASHINGTON (July 20, 2010) — More than 1,100 U.S. counties — a full one-third of all counties in the lower 48 states — now face higher risks of water shortages by mid-century as the result of global warming, and more than 400 of these […]
Washington (AFP) July 18, 2010 – Scientists studying the massive BP oil spill fear a decades-long, “cascading” effect on marine life that could lead to a shift in the overall biological network in the Gulf of Mexico. With some 400 species estimated to be at risk — from the tiniest oil-eating bacteria to shrimp […]
