SAN FRANCISCO, CA, September 8, 2010 –/WORLD-WIRE/— Leaders of Pacific Island States along with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and a coalition of non-profit, intergovernmental and academic institutions will call for collaborated action on ocean threats across the Pacific on Wednesday September 8th in San Francisco, California (USA). Read the full press release
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, September 7, 2010 (ENS) – In Louisiana alone, there have been 399 reports of health complaints related to exposure to pollutants from the BP oil spill, according to the latest weekly report from the Louisiana Office of Public Health, issued Saturday. Read the full article
HOUSTON, Texas, September 8, 2010 (ENS) – No single factor but “a sequence of failures involving a number of different parties” caused the explosion and fire aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig leased by BP in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said in a new report issued today. Read the full article
ScienceDaily (Sep. 1, 2010) — A distinct decline in horseshoe crab numbers has occurred that parallels climate change associated with the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study that used genomics to assess historical trends in population sizes.
Here are two new websites, one on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and one on climate change in Antarctica. Check them out here
JUST 600 metres away from the Great Barrier Reef, the jewel in Australia’s crown, a less spectacular but more ancient reef has been discovered. Read the August 19, 2010 NewScientist article
“Ocean acidification is the name given to the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth’s oceans, caused by their uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Between 1751 and 1994 surface ocean pH is estimated to have decreased from approximately 8.18 to 8.1. PH is a measure of the acidity or basicity of a solution.” Read […]
WASHINGTON — A 22-mile-long invisible mist of oil is meandering far below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, where it will probably loiter for months or more, scientists reported Thursday in the first conclusive evidence of an underwater plume from the BP spill. Read the August 19, 2010 Associated Press article