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
ST. PETERSBURG — Far from being gone, the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster appears to still be causing ecological damage in the Gulf of Mexico, according to new findings from University of South Florida scientists. Read the St. Petersburg Times article
WASHINGTON — A newly discovered type of oil-eating microbe is suddenly flourishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Read the August 24, 2010 Associated Press article
It’s the biggest environmental disaster in American history – and BP is making it worse Read the August 5, 2010 Rolling Stone article
A few million dollars invested by governments in restoring nature could prevent far greater losses of the free services that ecosystems provide to people around the world, a U.N. report said on Thursday. Read the Reuters article