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Dome BP hopes will cap oil leak in Gulf of Mexico reaches sea bed
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 7th, 2010
Telegraph: Submersible robots working nearly a mile under water suspended the 40ft high dome over the leak, which is spewing out 200,000 gallons of crude a day. Undersea cameras attached to the robots were being used to make sure the dome was properly aligned before it is dropped all the way to the bottom. Once the device is in place the robots will secure it over the leak, a process that will take hours. BP spokesman Bill Salvin said: "We are essentially taking a four-story ...
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Comments Off on Dome BP hopes will cap oil leak in Gulf of Mexico reaches sea bedOil extending west around Mississippi Delta
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 7th, 2010
Associated Press: Recent satellite images show oil from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico is extending west around the Mississippi Delta. Shots taken by a Canadian satellite Wednesday night reveal the extension looks like a finger reaching out from the main patch. The oil is in streaks ranging from a few feet wide to much larger swaths. University of Miami imaging expert Hans Graber said Friday the main oil slick has been shifting to the northwest, encroaching on Chandeleur Sound, which lies ...
Rare 114-year record, kept by generations, logs changing climate
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 7th, 2010
ScienceDaily: day since Jan. 1, 1896, an observer has hiked to a spot at The Mohonk Preserve, a resort and nature area some 90 miles north of New York City, to record daily temperature and other conditions there. It is the rarest of the rare: a weather station that has never missed a day of temperature recording; never been moved; never seen its surroundings change; and never been tended by anyone but a short, continuous line of family and friends, using the same methods, for 114 years. On top of ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Rare 114-year record, kept by generations, logs changing climateRats top invasive mammals table
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 7th, 2010
BBC: Brown rats are among the most invasive mammals in Europe, according to a wide-ranging assessment. Swiss researchers found that the creatures, along with sika deer and muskrats, were having the greatest ecological and economic impact. The team considered a range of measurements, including the threats to native species and how widely the alien species had become established. The findings have been published in the journal Conservation Biology. The scientists said ...
Tennessee Covered In River-Mud Glaze
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 7th, 2010
National Public Radio: Floodwaters from the Cumberland River have left a skim of brown over much of downtown Nashville and at least a billion-dollar cleanup. Nearly a week after more than a foot of rain fell in Tennessee, concern is growing over the environmental impact of sewage and oil in the water. Some more remote areas are finding out they will be without tap water for months.
Gulf coast holds its breath as dome is lowered on well
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 7th, 2010
McClatchy Newspapers: Underwater robots maneuvered a mammoth white containment dome over a leaking oil well 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Friday as environmentalists, fishermen and hoteliers waited to see if the unprecedented effort would contain this region's 17-day-long ecological disaster. Engineers hoped to thread a slot in the dome over the well's main leaking pipe, then let the dome sink into the mud, creating a water-tight seal. After that, engineers planned to hook a ...