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Gulf Coast warned oil may leak until August

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 in Oil Spill

U.S. government and BP officials are warning that the blown-out oil well causing an environmental disaster on the Gulf Coast may not be stopped until August as the company begins preparations on a new attempt to capture the leaking crude. The disaster, in its 42nd day on Monday, is already the larg...

'Flotels' await oil spill cleanup workers on Gulf

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 in Oil Spill

The 40-foot-long corrugated steel boxes, resembling oversized white shipping containers, are stacked two high and three wide atop a barge at Port Fourchon, the oil industry's hub on the Gulf of Mexico. The words "Martin Quarters" painted in black offer the only clue that they're not stuffed with car...

A Great Carbon Dioxide Burp

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 in Climate Change

There are many earth cycles. One is a cycling between warmer and colder periods which are commonly called ice ages. The causes of these cycles are complex and are related to how much sun radiation we get as well as some slight variation in the sun itself. Scientists have recently found a pos...

Oil Spills for Dummies

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 in Oil Spill

by Deborah Blum So, at a Sunday news briefing, British Petroleum's CEO, Tony Hayward, announced that there are no underwater plumes of oil resulting from the April accident at the company's Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Why? Well, first BP's testing hasn't found any such evidence. An...

Hydroelectric Energy

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 31 May 2010 in Clean Technology

Fossil Fuels are running low and greenhouse gases are only becoming worse. Which direction in renewable energy will provide for a better environment along with better methods for producing energy? Hydropower has been used for hundreds of years. The first uses of hydropower were for grinding of grai...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 31 May 2010 in Clean Water

“Where does most of the garbage in our streets actually end up?” This is a question most people ask but never really get an answer too. Today the answer will be revealed. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the center of our garbage, made up of nothing but floating garbage and debris (Moore, C. 2003)...

Volunteer Programs

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 31 May 2010 in Animals

Does anyone know if there is a website or if I could make a website for people to donate, to help send me to Australia or other countries to do volunteer work? Its like 3-4 thousand for a two week to months trip depending on where you go.

Gulf Oil Threatens an Underwater 'Rainforest'

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 30 May 2010 in Oil Spill

The WeatherBird II is not a pretty ship. A boxy, businesslike, 194-ton vessel, it prowls the waters off St Petersburg, Fla. where it competes for attention with the cruise ships and sport yachts and other glamour boats. But the WeatherBird II was the buzz of the Gulf on Friday, after its ala...

Top Kill Failure – BP Trying Out New Plan To Stop Gulf Oil Spill

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 30 May 2010 in Oil Spill

BP Top Kill, BP Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill 2010: BP’s hopes to attempt to plug the leaking oil well with their Top Kill plan, turned out to be a failure. Ever since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion took place last month, the leaking oil well has not been fixed, and this has resulted ...

BP Turns Focus to Marine Cap After 'Top Kill' Fails

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 30 May 2010 in Oil Spill

BP PLC expects to connect a marine cap to contain a spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico in about four days, the company's chief executive told staff Monday. In an email, Tony Hayward said: "The LMRP [lower marine riser package] cap is already on site and it is currently anticipated that it will be con...

"This scares everybody, the fact that we can't stop this well,"

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 30 May 2010 in Oil Spill

This scares everybody, the fact that we can't stop this well," - BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles, May 29, 2010: More oil-spill responders hospitalized and exposure information gaps persist by Elizabeth Grossman As of Saturday afternoon, May 29th, ten oil spill clean-up workers had ...

Saving Our Forests

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 30 May 2010 in Forestry

All over the world, more premium is being placed on the conservation of forests and the planting of tress in order to preserve both fauna and flora. It is not for nothing that it is usually stated that “when the last tree dies, the last man dies”. Scientists are quick to explain that one of the imp...

DiCaprio Launches Tiger Protection Charity

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 in Water Conservation

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has launched an organization to help protect endangered tigers. The Titanic star has joined forces with the World Wildlife Fund to create Save Tigers Now, with the aim of raising $20 million (£13 million) for the cause. DiCaprio, who is currently in Asia learning about the ...

Sink to Obama: Take charge of oil cleanup

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 25 May 2010 in Oil Spill

Florida’s chief financial officer is asking the Obama administration to stop waiting for BP PLC to stop the oil from spilling into the Gulf of Mexico and start taking matters into its own hands. “For too long, we have relied on BP and its contractors to staunch the flow of oil, and they have failed ...

10 countries are responsible for 87% of global deforestation

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 23 May 2010 in Forestry

Deforestation causes up to 1/5 of current greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.After including their forest emissions, Brazil and Indonesia are, respectively, the world’s 4th and 5th largest greenhouse gas emitters. Reducing rates of deforestation can be one effective way of cutting gre...

Seeking info and help

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 23 May 2010 in Arts and Entertainment

Hello everyone! My name is Vanessa Pastrana and the organization I work with, Kingsbridge Heights Neigborhood Improvement Association (KHNIA ), hosts an annual cultural festival. This year the festival will be on July 10th. We have decided to make the theme about the Prot...

U.S. will "push" out BP if spill response falls short

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 22 May 2010 in Oil Spill

"If we find they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing, we'll push them out of the way appropriately," Salazar said, but he did not specify at what point this would occur or what might be the trigger for it. "This is an existential crisis for one of the world's largest companies," ...

Why BP Won't Measure the Oil Spill

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 22 May 2010 in Oil Spill

By Nicole Allan In the latest sci-fi development from the Gulf oil spill, scientists have found enormous oil "plumes" beneath the ocean's surface. With this, and last week's underwater footage of oil and natural gas gushing out of the ruptured well, it's apparent that BP's estimate of the amount of...

Emissions-based climate deal 'not possible'

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 21 May 2010 in Climate Change

Current climate policy of emissions targets and trading will not suceed and should be replaced by a 'politically attractive' one based on providing cheap, non-carbon energy, says new paper An international agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions is doomed to failure and must ...

Children's Environmental Health Rights Centre in Madurai, India - Become a Partner!

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 20 May 2010 in Human Health

Children’s Environmental Health Rights Centre in Madurai, Tamilnadu, India{A capacity building, training, advocacy and resource Centre for children and young people} Introduction: Protection of environment has posed not only a major challenge but also a social and moral responsibility in the ...