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2/9/2010
The star of an Oscar-winning film about dolphin hunting in Japan delivered a petition to the country's US embassy calling for an end to the practice.
Ric O'Barry, 70 – who appeared in The Cove and trained dolphins for 1960s TV show ...
2/9/2010
An oil and gas platform operated by Mariner Energy burst into flames on Thursday and unleashed a mile-long oil sheen into the Gulf of Mexico, in the region's first major offshore disaster since BP's oil spill began in April.
All 13 crew ...
2/9/2010
An offshore petroleum rig exploded and was burning Friday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay.
The Coast Guard says no one was killed in the explosion, which was reported by a commercial helicopter flying over the ...
2/9/2010
An offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel says the blast was reported by a commercial helicopter company about 9:30 ...
2/9/2010
The humble Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) bears a heavy burden. It may be just a small, shrimp-like crustacean, but its sheer abundance makes it one of the largest protein sources on Earth, eagerly sought by fish, penguins, whales -- and ...
2/9/2010
The US ban on deep water oil and gas drilling could be overturned for a second time after a federal judge yesterday rejected the Obama administration's request to dismiss an oil industry lawsuit challenging the six-month moratorium.
US ...
2/9/2010
Two Greenpeace activists will face possible jail terms in Japan on Monday for stealing a box of whale meat in a trial the environmental group says will test the country's limits on political activism.
Prosecutors have demanded 18-month ...
2/9/2010
Four Greenpeace activists who halted drilling by a British-owned oil exploration rig off Greenland have been arrested after they abandoned their occupation because of severe weather.
Greenlandic police arrested the four after high winds ...
2/9/2010
Federal authorities have lifted a fishing ban in part of the northern Gulf of Mexico from the Florida Panhandle to the far eastern coast of Louisiana.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials said Thursday about 5,130 ...
2/9/2010
Engineers have removed a temporary cap that stopped oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's blown-out well in mid-July. No more oil was expected to leak into the sea, but crews were standing by with collection vessels just in ...
2/9/2010
Stealthy submarine gliders slide through the depths of the Gulf of Mexico with the precision of birds of prey. Robot-like rovers search for droplets of oil thousands of metres under the surface. Powerful computerised analysers send instant ...
2/9/2010
An oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on Thursday, setting off a blaze and a small oil spill, but the accident does not appear to be as serious as BP's deadly rig explosion and oil spill in April.
The U.S. Coast Guard ...
2/9/2010
Four Greenpeace activists who had clung to an oil rig off western Greenland with rock-climbing gear were arrested Thursday after an Arctic storm forced them to abandon their environmental protest.
Police spokesman Morten Nielsen said the ...
2/9/2010
There is no sign of an oil spill after a rig caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico, a spokesman for rig operator Mariner Energy said.
"In an initial flyover by company personnel over the site, there was no hydrocarbon spill that was ...
2/9/2010
Another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico suffered an explosion today, raising fears of more pollution just months after the BP oil spill hit the area.
There were 13 crew on the rig, of whom one was known to be injured. Most of the crew took ...
2/9/2010
BP Plc said it had begun removing a cap from equipment atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well on Thursday, the first of several steps in advance of plugging the leak for good.
"We expect that to happen this afternoon," spokesman Scott ...
2/9/2010
The U.S. Coast Guard was flying helicopters to a possible offshore drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, a Coast Guard spokesman said.
Helicopters were an hour away from the site of the possible explosion, said Coast Guard Petty ...
2/9/2010
An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP's undersea well spilled after a rig explosion.
The Coast Guard says no one was ...
2/9/2010
The decline in Namibia's fish resources is a result of environmental conditions and failed recovery of the resources despite conservative management strategies, says Beau Tjizoo of the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources.
"Warm ...
2/9/2010
The image of thick crude gushing from a blown-out oil well a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico was turned off when a tightly fitting cap was secured on top a month-and-a-half ago.
Engineers weren't expecting that sight again Thursday when ...
2/9/2010
Scottish oil exploration group Cairn Energy said Thursday it had resumed operations on a rig off the coast of Greenland after Greenpeace ended a protest."Cairn can confirm that operations have started again on the Stena Don (oil rig), ...
2/9/2010
Visitors and some residents were evacuated from low-lying holiday islands off the North Carolina coast yesterday as Hurricane Earl bore down on the US eastern seaboard, churning up dangerous swells.
Earl, still a major (Category 3) ...
2/9/2010
As Virginia braces for a possible bashing by Hurricane Earl, two environmental groups on Wednesday released a report that suggests things may only get worse for low-lying areas in Hampton Roads, especially area National Parks.
The report ...
2/9/2010
The Nanaimo Estuary is one of the most important estuaries in the province for carbon storage, deemed critical for slowing climate change and absorbing spent carbon.
In a report titled Blue Carbon – British Columbia, authored by Colin ...
1/9/2010
Could pollutants from the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico end up as far north as New England?
That could happen if a hurricane or tropical storm hits the Gulf region and moves northward.
Siddhartha Mitra, Geochemist, East ...