By Jeremy Hancewww.mongabay.comJune 02, 2010 According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, snow cover retreated to the lowest extent ever recorded in North America by the end of this April. Snow cover was 2.2 million square kilometers below average. With records of snow extent beginning in 1967, this is the lowest in 43 […]
By David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet EilperinWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, May 28, 2010; 4:37 PM A day after scientists reported finding a huge “plume” of oil extending miles east of the leaking BP well, on Friday a Louisiana scientist said his crew had located another vast plume of oily globs, miles in the opposite direction. […]
The riser pipe of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil well, moments before it was cut by the giant shear. The riser pipe of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil well, moments after it was cut by the giant shear. Deepwater BP Oil Spill Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,North America,Gulf of Mexico
By Joe Weisenthal and Gus Lubin | Jun. 1, 2010, 1:44 PM UPDATE II: BP spokesperson John Curry denied reports of any problems with the Lower Marine Rise Package, which begins drilling today. Reports that BP had canceled all rescue plans were based on a headline from Bloomberg: “Efforts to End Oil Flow From BP’s […]
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 Jim Polson – Jun 1, 2010 BP Plc has decided not to attach a second blowout preventer on its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico and efforts to end the flow are over until the relief wells are finished, according to the U.S. Coast Guard’s Thad Allen, who spoke at a press conference […]
By Associated Press Writer Ray Henry June 01, 2010, 7:44AM BUFORD, Ga. — Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to sign new water conservation rules meant to help him reach a deal with Alabama and Florida that will prevent metro Atlanta from losing much of its water. Perdue plans to sign the legislation this morning […]
By Jeff DuteMay 31, 2010, 12:38PM MOBILE, Ala. — On the eve of the opener of the 2010 red snapper season, approaching oil from the Deepwater Horizon well has prompted the NOAA Fisheries Service to expand the federal waters closed to fishing. The newly closed areas include federal waters up to state waters from Gulfport, […]
By The Associated PressMay 30, 2010, 6:04PM The reality that the Gulf oil leak could keep flowing for months was setting in Sunday for some somber churchgoers in Louisiana. In Plaquemines Parish near the mouth of the Mississippi River, the Rev. Theodore Turner said of his congregants are getting desperate because BP has been unable […]
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 […]
