10 Species 10 Years Later
<p>This report, 10 Species, 10 Years Later, summarizes the best information available about the wildlife featured. We selected these species for many reasons: They represent different types of affected
Gulf Of Mexico
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Deep waters still beckon
Renuka Bisht
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Fears grow for future of Mississippi wetlands
If the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon rig is not stopped soon it could be the final blow to an already dying Mississippi delta, environmentalists are warning.
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BP counts high cost of clean-up and blow to brand
The cost to BP of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, in terms of the clean-up, compensation for the fishing and tourism industries, and possibly punitive damages, could be $10bn (
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US halts offshore drilling as oil spill reaches coast
Coast Guard officials were investigating reports on Friday morning that oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico had washed ashore overnight, threatening fisheries and wildlife in fragile marshes and islands along the Gulf Coast.
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US intensifies effort, mobilises military to contain oil spill
Houston: The US government intensified its response to a spreading oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, mobilising the military to try to avert an environmental disaster along the fragile coastline of Louisiana and three other Gulf states.
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U.S. oil leak more than feared
NEW ORLEANS: A BP executive on Thursday agreed with a U.S. government estimate that the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico could be pumping up to 5,000 barrels a day of crude into the ocean, far more than previously thought.
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Concern grows over gulf oil spill impact
April 28: With a vast oil slick now within only 20 miles of the ecologically fragile Louisiana coastline, Coast Guard officials said they were considering a
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Obama announces drilling expansion for climate push
President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday plans for a broad expansion of offshore oil and gas drilling in an effort to win Republican support for new proposals to fight climate change. Obama, a Democrat, said his administration would consider new areas for drilling in the mid and south Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, while
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Glaciers as a source of ancient and labile organic matter to the marine environment
Coastal ecosystems are sensitive to changes in the quantity and lability of terrigenous dissolved organic matter (DOM) delivered by rivers. The lability of DOM is thought to decrease with age, but this view stems from work in watersheds where terrestrial plant and soil sources dominate streamwater DOM.
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Brazil reports bonanza oil find
Brazil's prospects of becoming a leading oil producer increased yesterday when it emerged that a giant offshore field could be double the size of BP's discovery last week in the Gulf of Mexico.