Ecosystem damage to show true cost of Gulf spill

  Paris (AFP) July 13, 2010 – The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster is likely to cost far more than cleanup and compensation for lost income once damage to ecosystems is factored in, a top expert said Tuesday. In an interview coinciding with a UN-sponsored report on the link between business and biodiversity, economist Pavan […]

Oil hits Louisiana’s largest seabird nesting area

Wildlife Toll Mounts In Gulf As Oil Hits Louisiana’s Largest Seabird Nesting Ground (AP)   Biologists say oil has smeared at least 300-400 pelicans and hundreds of terns in the largest seabird nesting area along the Louisiana coast – marking a sharp and sudden escalation in wildlife harmed by BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The […]

Oil spill permeates the Gulf’s most productive environments

By John Talberth and Stephen Posner on July 7, 2010 The BP oil spill will degrade critical ecosystem services and their economic benefits for decades to come. BP’s massive oil spill jeopardizes the underpinning of economic wealth in the Gulf of Mexico region – the diverse coastal and marine ecosystems that generate a bounty of […]

Louisiana state and scientists spar over how to stop oil

By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLFPublished: July 6, 2010 With oil hitting Barataria Bay, a vast estuary in southeast Louisiana that boasts one of the most productive fisheries in the country, local parish officials hatched a plan in May to save the fragile ecosystem: they would build rock dikes across several major tidal inlets between the bay […]

Gulf oil disaster spells calamity for Canadian migratory birds

  By Bradley Bouzane, Canwest News Service July 5, 2010 OTTAWA — Tens of thousands of Canadian migratory birds are threatened by the environmental crisis caused by a spreading slick of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, says a Canadian bird expert. While news reports continue to show images of oil-soaked birds around the Southern […]

Overfishing and crabs may be killing Cape Cod’s marshes

By Carolyn Y. JohnsonBoston Globe Staff / July 6, 2010 HARWICH — For the past seven years, scientists have been alarmed by the mysterious death of marsh grasses on Cape Cod, which is transforming expanses of lush green wetlands into lumpy mudflats with the appearance of Swiss cheese. Work over the past few years has […]

Image of the Day: Oil reaches Lake Pontchartrain

By Matthew Hinton, The Times-PicayunePosted: Monday, July 05, 2010, 8:06 PM A tar ball from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washed ashore near the Treasure Island subdivision in Lake Pontchartrain as people fish near the Rigolets in Slidell, Monday July 5, 2010. MATTHEW HINTON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Oil has reached Lake Pontchartrain Technorati Tags: oil […]

Video: Sea Shepherd overflight of the Gulf oil spill — ‘Booms randomly placed…all but completely useless’

Sea Shepherd CEO, Steve Roest, flies at an undisclosed altitude to examine the situation in the Gulf. Watch as he narrates his account. Sea Shepherd Flies Over the gulf ***Exclusive footage*** Technorati Tags: oil spill,oil production,pollution,Gulf of Mexico,North America,wetland,habitat loss,ecosystem disruption

Sand berms a dubious solution to Gulf oil spill

By Len Bahr, Contributing Op-Ed columnist, www.LaCoastPost.com Published: Monday, July 05, 2010, 6:00 PM The coast of Louisiana occupies North America’s largest delta, which has been rapidly shrinking and sinking for a century. River channelization, flood levees, upriver dams and coastal oil and gas production continue to take their toll. But a decade from now, […]

Nitrogen pollution alters global change scenarios from the ground up

Washington DC (SPX) Jul 06, 2010 As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, so does the pressure on the plant kingdom. The hope among policymakers, scientists and concerned citizens is that plants will absorb some of the extra CO2 and mitigate the impacts of climate change. For a few decades now, researchers have hypothesized about one […]

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