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BP Gulf Oil Spill: A Look Back [PHOTOS]
By not in system - AOL NewsOn April 20, 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig suffered a massive explosion off the Louisiana coast, killing 11 workers and releasing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Take a look back at the photos that captured the damage the oil spill caused to the Gulf's wildlife and industries. http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=996772&pid=996771&uts=1303223363 ...
Report: Ocean 'Dead Zones' Increasing in US
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 6) -- The nation's waterways are fast becoming a wasteland. Released Friday, a joint report by the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science finds that the number of so-called "dead zones" in U.S. waters is 30 times more expansive today than it was in 1960. The rise of hypoxia -- a lethal drop in oxygen levels in water to the point at which fish and plant life can no longer survive -- is largely attributable to man-made activity such as pollution and fertilizer runoff into the nation's ...
New Gulf Oil Leak in Pictures
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 27) -- Just as BP and the country were getting used to the thought of having finally contained the country's worst oil spill (at least temporarily), a boating accident in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday opened a new leak in another company's wellhead, spraying a 100-foot-high plume of natural gas into the air and water just off the Louisiana coast. Fortunately, as a statement from Louisiana's affected Jefferson Parish attests, the leak emanating from the Cedyco Corp. wellhead is nowhere near as severe as the BP spill. The parish's public information office notes that "the volume of oil ...
Tropical Storm Bonnie Forms Near Bahamas
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 22) -- After a day of anticipation and dread, it's finally here: Tropical Storm Bonnie, the second named tropical storm this season, officially formed as of 6:15 p.m. EDT today, the National Hurricane Center reported. The storm formed about 200 miles southeast of Nassau, the capital city of the Bahamas, near the Turks and Caicos Islands, and is traveling northwest at 14 mph, with minimum sustained wind speeds of 40 mph. Check out the approximate location of Bonnie at this time: Powered by storm-tracking software from Stormpulse.com Current weather models are projecting that the ...
Ivor van Heerden, the Controversial Cassandra of the Gulf
By Ben Sandmel - Politics DailyLIVINGSTON, Louisiana -- Dr. Ivor van Heerden, the former deputy director of Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center, was one of several experts to presciently predict the disastrous consequences -- including catastrophic levee failure -- if a major hurricane were to hit the New Orleans area. "Louisiana is a terminally ill patient requiring major surgery," van Heerden told the PBS program "Nova" in 2004. In the course of encouraging transformative hurricane preparation, van Heerden additionally called for the restoration of Louisiana's coastal wetlands. Decades of erosion due to oil ...
Oil Spill's Latest Villain Has Four Legs, Sharp Teeth
By Laura Parker - AOL News(May 22) -- Amid the animal and marine life living in Louisiana's coastal swamps is one critter few would mourn if the gulf oil spill wiped it out. But in a bitter twist, those nutria haters are not likely to get their wish. Weighing in at about 20 pounds and built like a small beaver, the semiaquatic rodent may be physically unimposing, but in terms of the destruction it's wreaked on Louisiana's coastal wetlands, it's any bulldozer's equal. Indeed, one of the reasons the wetlands are so vulnerable to the crude gushing from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is thanks to the nutria's ...
Obama: U.S Will Use 'Every Available Resource' on Gulf Oil Spill
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Obama dispatched two top Cabinet officers to Louisiana on Thursday and said the federal government would "continue to use every available resource at our disposal" to contain a huge oil slick threatening the coastline there. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, one of those tapped by Obama to get a handle on the situation, said the spill was a matter of "national significance," a designation freeing up federal aid from all regions of the country to combat it, the New York Times said. "We will continue to push BP to engage in the strongest response possible," Napolitano ...
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