Report says Afghan city and region will need six times more water by 2050, as Oxfam warns of violence over scarce resource By John Vidal, environment editor, www.guardian.co.uk Monday 19 July 2010 09.25 BST Kabul and its surrounding region are perilously short of water and may not be able to supply a fast-growing, more affluent […]
The size and number of marine dead zones—areas where the deep water is so low in dissolved oxygen that sea creatures can’t survive—have grown explosively in the past half-century. Red circles on this map show the location and size of many of our planet’s dead zones. Black dots show where dead zones have been observed, […]
By JUSTIN GILLIS and LESLIE KAUFMANPublished: July 17, 2010 On the rocky beaches of Alaska, scientists plunged shovels and picks into the ground and dug 6,775 holes, repeatedly striking oil — still pungent and dangerous a dozen years after the Exxon Valdez infamously spilled its cargo. More than an ocean away, on the Breton coast […]
Prayer service for the Gulf of Mexico By Roy Hoffman, Press-Register Published: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 4:07 PM As first light filled the sky over the Gulf of Mexico, a small band of worshippers gathered at Gulf State Park Pavilion on Sunday to pray for the Gulf and those affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil […]
By Wei Tian, Hu Meidong and Zhu Xingxin in Fujian, and He Na in Beijing (China Daily)Updated: 2010-07-16 07:57 Qiu Yonglu knew something was wrong when his fish refused to eat and kept circling their pool. Ten days later, they began dying. On July 12, almost a month later, he finally discovered what had poisoned […]
By Kristen Hays and Tom BerginMon Jul 19, 2010 4:04pm EDT HOUSTON/LONDON (Reuters) – Energy giant BP Plc said on Monday that seepage near its Gulf of Mexico well was unrelated to the massive oil leak that has at least temporarily been capped. BP shares, which had dropped more than 6 percent after engineers detected […]
English.news.cn2010-07-19 21:07:07 DALIAN, July 19 (Xinhua) — Over 500 fishing boats Monday joined a massive oil spill clean-up operation underway off the coast of northeastern China’s Dalian City, three days after pipelines exploded near the city’s oil reserve base, one of China’s largest. Dalian officials said Monday the fires have been completely extinguished and the […]
By Colleen Long and Harry R. Weber of The Associated PressSunday, July 18, 2010, 4:56 PM NEW ORLEANS — A federal official said Sunday that scientists are concerned about a seep and possible methane seen near BP’s busted oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Both could be signs there are leaks in the well […]
By Brad Johnson15 July 2010 As experts warned, Bobby Jindal’s “obvious” response to the BP oil disaster is failing. Since the beginning of May, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) has pushed a crash effort to build artificial “barrier islands” from dredged sand to prevent BP’s toxic oil from reaching Louisiana’s fragile coastline. He and other Louisiana […]
“official time of choke fully closed 2:25 this afternoon (well fully closed)” Starting the Testing Program and Open Thread By Katherine Sayre, Press-RegisterPublished: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 2:51 PM MOBILE, Ala. — A BP official said oil stopped flowing from a well in the Gulf of Mexico at 2:25 p.m. as testing began on a […]
