By James PatonOct 5, 2010 8:16 PM PT Future oil spills off the coast of Australia’s Queensland state are “inevitable” as ship traffic increases, according to a report analyzing the April grounding of a Chinese coal carrier on the Great Barrier Reef. The incident involving the vessel Shen Neng 1 “highlights the vulnerability of Queensland’s […]
By Cain Burdeau, Associated Press writer Thursday, September 30, 2010, 7:32 PM Federal scientists said Thursday they had found no visible oil on the sea floor around the damaged Gulf well that spewed some 206 million gallons of oil. Other scientists say they found a layer of oil on the sea floor. “At this point, […]
By Joshua Schneyer; editing by David GregorioThu Sep 30, 2010 7:09pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – University researchers said on Thursday they recently found alarming levels of cancer-causing toxins in an area of the Gulf of Mexico affected by BP’s oil spill, raising the specter of long-lasting health concerns. Oregon State University (OSU) researchers found […]
SAN FRANCISCO— The Interior Department announced Tuesday that the African penguin, the only nesting penguin on the African continent, will be listed as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The decision responds to a 2006 Center for Biological Diversity petition to protect 12 penguin species under the Act as well as a […]
The Associated Press Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 9:52 AM A Gallup survey released Tuesday of almost 2,600 Gulf Coast residents showed that depression cases are up more than 25 percent since an oil rig explosion killed 11 people and unleashed a three-month oil spill into the Gulf in April that ruined many livelihoods. The conclusions […]
Baby fish show up in big numbers despite spill By Ben Raines, Press-Register Sunday, September 26, 2010, 5:00 AM Baby snapper are everywhere. So are baby trout, grouper and grunt. Early results from an annual count of juvenile fish in grass beds scattered around the northern Gulf of Mexico suggest that the larvae of some […]
By Guy Busby, Press-Register Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 8:00 AM ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — Thousands of feet of steel pipe intended to protect Perdido Pass from the Gulf oil spill lie in a city storage yard off Canal Road. Crews dismantled the multimillion-dollar boom project just two weeks after it was completed. The floating steel […]
By Ben Raines, Press-Register Thursday, September 23, 2010, 5:00 AM A good deal of oil remains in the shallow waters closest to the beaches in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, according to a federal team using shovels and snorkeling gear to survey the coastline for submerged oil. The team found tarballs washing ashore with every wave […]
By Brett Israel, www.LiveScience.com Tue Sep 21, 8:31 pm ET NEW YORK – Now that BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil well has been sealed, the long, hard work of assessing the damage begins even as the oil is dispersing throughout the Gulf. A research team from Columbia University in New York returned this past weekend (Sept. […]
By Chris Baltimore; editing by Mohammad ZarghamTue Sep 21, 2010 5:17pm EDT HOUSTON (Reuters) – The government is unable to confirm reports of a miles-long plume of oil lurking beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico from BP Plc’s giant oil spill, a government scientist said on Tuesday. The government confirmed on Sunday that […]
