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Gulf Coast Oil Spill: An Update

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 12 July 2010 in Oil Spill

In the weeks since I first wrote about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the situation seems to have gone from bad to worse. While Seacology has no projects in the Gulf, there are many islands in the region, and many more marine and costal wildlife and ecosystems similar to those S...

Water Shortages move to "Extreme Risk"

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 12 July 2010 in Clean Water

African, Asian Nations Top Latest Water Security Risk Index Somalia has the least secure water supply while Iceland has the most stable in the world, according to a survey of 165 nations released last week by Maplecroft, a Britain-based consultancy company. The study, the Water Security Risk Index ...

BP executive says he’s ‘proud’ of company response.

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 12 July 2010 in Oil Spill

In what can only be a comment made due to consuming a disproportionate amount of anti-represents or arrogance, BP’s COO Doug Suttles said he was proud of his company’s actions in response to the oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. Maybe someone should tell him that there is still 60,000 barrels ...

16 Burning Questions About Gulf Oil Spill …

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 11 July 2010 in Oil Spill

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a national nightmare that seems to have no ending. Every day new details come out that are even more shocking than what we learned the day before. The truth is that life will never be the same in the Gulf of Mexico or for those who live along the Gulf coast....

Cap Removed From Gushing Well, Oil Flows Freely

Posted by earthprotect on Sunday, 11 July 2010 in Oil Spill

Robotic submarines working a mile underwater removed a leaking cap from the gushing Gulf oil well Saturday, starting a painful trade-off: Millions more gallons of crude will flow freely into the sea for at least two days until a new seal can be mounted to capture all of it.There's no guarantee for s...

The Spill will change the Oil Industry Forever

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 11 July 2010 in Oil Spill

A SUPERTANKER has begun skimming oil in the Gulf of Mexico as the disaster became the worst accidental spill on record, surpassed only by the deliberate release by Iraqi troops during the 1991 Gulf War. An estimated 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil per day has been gushing out of the ruptured we...

Oil Once Again Free Flowing into Gulf as New Cap Comes into Play

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 11 July 2010 in Oil Spill

Oil was spewing largely unchecked into the Gulf of Mexico as BP crews claimed progress Sunday in the first stages of replacing a leaky cap with a new containment system they hope will finally catch all the crude from the busted well. The Associated PressIn this image taken from video provided by BP...

Activists Sit Down so EPA Will Stand up to King Coal

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 10 July 2010 in Mining

Cross posted from the RAN Understory, By Nell Greenberg On July 8th, activists with the Rainforest Action Network have staged a super creative and gutsy sit-in at the EPA headquarters to demand stronger protection for Appalachia’s drinking water and an end to the devastating practice of ...

For Hudson Bay Polar Bears, The End is Already in Sight

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 09 July 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

No polar bears have been more closely studied than Canada’s western Hudson Bay population. In recent decades, biologists such as Andrew E. Derocher of the University of Alberta have compiled an impressive store of data on everything from the weight of females at denning, to the body mass of bears of...

From NASA - Ice Break the Size of New York

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 09 July 2010 in Climate Change

NASA-funded researchers monitoring Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier report that a 7 square kilometer (2.7 square mile) section of the glacier broke up on July 6 and 7, as shown in the image above. The calving front – where the ice sheet meets the ocean – retreated nearly 1.5 kilometers ...

Ice Watchers, Satellites Track Ice Melt

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 09 July 2010 in Climate Change

The surest sign of a warming Earth is the steady melting of its ice zones, from disappearing sea ice in the Arctic to shrinking glaciers worldwide. Now, scientists are using increasingly sophisticated satellite technology to measure the extent, thickness, and height of ice, assembling an essential p...

A wounded Gulf of Mexico, an elusive prognosis

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 09 July 2010 in Oil Spill

WASHINGTON — How dead is the Gulf of Mexico? By David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post | July 6, 2010 It is perhaps the most important question of the BP oil spill — but scientists don’t appear close to answering it despite a historically vast effort. In the 2 1/2 months since the ...

The Animals are counted in the Gulf

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 09 July 2010 in Oil Spill

As you can see, birds are hit hardest (or most often discovered). So we headed to the International Bird Rescue's Buras, LA operation, where they take many of the oiled pelicans, gulls, and terns.Most of the birds spend 2-3 weeks in recovery and they spend the first week very stressed out due to all...

Climate Researchers Not Guilty of Tampering

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 08 July 2010 in Climate Change

For the third time, investigations by independent investigators have found that climate researchers at University of East Anglia did not slant their findings. You will recall their hacked emails had some imprudent statements last year.The report said the scientists' honesty and rigor were not in dou...

BP: Oil Spill Costs Reach $3.1 Billion

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 05 July 2010 in Oil Spill

Oil company BP says the cost of clean up efforts and damage claims has now risen to $3.1 billion from the oil spill that has fouled hundreds of kilometers of beaches and damaged the economies of four southeastern Gulf states. BP said Monday the costs include $147 million in damage payments to peopl...

A POV of the OIL SPILL

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 05 July 2010 in Oil Spill

Image credit: NASA and the MODIS Rapid Response Team

It's official: Syncrude is a tar sands criminal

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 05 July 2010 in Earth Violators

After a two-and-a-half-month trial, tar sands oil giant Syncrude has been found guilty of the criminal charges laid in connection with the deaths of 1,606 ducks that in one of its mining tailings lakes in April 2008. Syncrude was charged under the Alberta Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act...

A Problem of Meds in Water that WE Can Solve

Posted by GreenDog on Sunday, 04 July 2010 in Clean Water

Unused meds, about 200 million pounds of them each year have to be disposed of and NOT down our drains. Flushing meds pollutes lakes, rivers and drinking water. At home it's a poison risk for kids and teens, and passing it along could cause a very bad result for the people who take them. What to do?...

Deepak Chopra: Oil Spill Requires 'Sacred Call to Action'

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 04 July 2010 in Oil Spill

Deepak Chopra and a group called the Evolutionary Leaders issued a Gulf Call to Sacred Action last week--to help spark a broad and multi-faceted popular response to the Gulf oil spill through integrating spirituality and activism. Featuring three on-line/call-in events, an eight point action...

Global Tiger Forum - Makes Greater Commitment to Conservation

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 03 July 2010 in Wildlife Conservation

New Delhi, India - At a meeting of the Global Tiger forum (GTF) this week, government representatives of GTF member tiger range countries and other member countries showed a greater desire to make stronger commitments to tiger conservation. There are 13 countries worldwide that still have...