Since the animals were first listed as endangered, the human population of Florida has more than tripled, and efforts to help the Florida’s state animal recover have had limited success By The Editors One of more than 20 subspecies of cougar and native to the southeastern United States, the Florida Panther is most certainly still […]
By Channel 4 News , Updated on 23 October 2009 The West Atlas oil rig continues to leak crude oil into the ocean off the coast of Australia following a rupture nine weeks ago. Julian Rush reports. [Video] It is thought the West Atlas oil platform leak could be a lot worse than […]
By Rebecca Lindsey, NASA’s Earth Observatory More than two months after a blowout at a newly dug oil well, crude oil and gas condensate continued to leak into the Timor Sea, between northwest Australia and Indonesia. According to news reports, the company responsible for the leaking well has tried to cap it three times without […]
By MARIAN WILKINSON ENVIRONMENT EDITOR, October 31, 2009 LARGE numbers of whales, dolphins, turtles and sea birds are feeding in waters polluted by the massive oil spill off the West Australian coast and are likely to be at ”immediate risk”, a new report released by the federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, reveals. A leading ecologist, […]
By Phil Mercer, Sydney, 20 October 2009 Australia’s worst oil slick since the mid-1980s is now tainting Indonesian waters. Fishermen in West Timor say contaminated fish are making villagers ill. Oil began leaking two months ago, following an accident on the West Atlas drilling platform, which lies about 200 kilometers off the coast of Western […]
A ship carrying toxic waste sunk off the coast of Madagascar, and thousands of tons of refuse were emptied into the rich marine ecosystem. The wreck has had devastating effects on the sea life and the health of people who live inland–causing whales to mysteriously beach in greater numbers, and afflicting the locals with grave […]
HONG KONG, Oct 29 (AFP) Oct 29, 2009 The live fish facing death in the glass tanks in Hong Kong’s famous seafood restaurants tell a strange and haunting tale of a looming global tragedy. At the heart of their story is the bizarre fact that there are more fine fish swimming in the tiny tanks […]
18. There are over 100 chemical plants in Jiangsu province coastal industry district. (江苏滨海头罾沿海化工园区) Some of them discharge wastewater into the ocean; some heavily contaminated sewage is stored in 5 “Sewage Temporary Pools”. During the 2 high tides in every month, the sewage then gets discharged into the ocean with the tides. June 20, 2008. […]
By Burton Frierson NEW YORK (Reuters) – Twelve of the worst pollution problems in the developing world are being cleaned up, demonstrating that tens of thousands of others also could be improved, according to a report [pdf] released on Wednesday. The clean-up sites, ranging from Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear disaster area to the polluted streets of […]
We have been following events since the catastrophic fly ash spill that took place last December in Tennessee in which an unimaginable 5.4 million cubic yards of toxic coal sludge was dumped into the Emory and Clinch rivers and the 300 acres surrounding the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Kingston plant. Now, an emerging Environmental […]
