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Study looks at Sandy’s impacts on tidal marshes
Posted by Associated Press: Clarke Canfield on July 31st, 2013
Associated Press: For biologists who have been studying birds in East Coast tidal marshes, Superstorm Sandy couldn't have come at a better time. Just two months before Sandy pummeled New Jersey and New York last October, a research team completed the field work of a study looking at bird populations at risk due to the loss of tidal marshes from sea level rise. With that pre-storm data in hand, the researchers are now comparing the abundance of marsh plants and birds before and after Sandy in those same marshes, from...
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Trains Carry Millions of Gallons of Oil Across Maine
Posted by Associated Press: Clarke Canfield on March 25th, 2013
Associated Press: Millions of gallons of crude oil from the nation's heartland are crossing Maine in railroad tank cars bound for a Canadian oil refinery, raising concern among environmentalists and state officials about the threat of an accident and spill.
The oil is primarily coming from the Bakken shale-oil field in North Dakota, with lesser amounts from neighboring Canada, where oil production has boomed in recent years. Trains carried nearly 5.3 million barrels of the light crude – more than 220 million gallons...