The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
ON April 20, a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. The rig was called Deepwater Horizon, well named for British Petroleum's (B.P.) remarkable effort to draw oil from a deep-sea rig that has to go through 22,000 to 25,000 feet (6,600-7,500 metres) of water before it strikes the …
With no end in sight for the oil gushing from the explosion site at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, anxious US officials are looking to researchers who study the Gulf of Mexico and its idiosyncratic currents to help determine where all the oil is and where it might be heading. …
This new paper by Donald A. Brown from Penn State University compares science and ethics of the Gulf Deepwater Horizon with the Climate Change. It argues that although the Gulf spill is a huge disaster, climate change is a huge moral failure leading to a worse environmental disaster. Climate change …
Louisiana: US government and BP officials are warning that the blown-out oil well causing an environmental disaster on the Gulf Coast may not be stopped until August as the company begins preparations on a new attempt to capture the leaking crude. BP Plc will use undersea robots to begin cutting …
BP moves to a new containment plan called the Lower Marine Riser Package Cap to siphon off the leaking oil to the surface, carried by remotely operated robots on the ocean floor : The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is probably "the biggest environmental disaster" that the United …
Narayan Lakshman Washington: After 37 days of failing to halt a torrent of oil spilling from its damaged offshore rig into the Gulf of Mexico, engineers from rig owner British Petroleum and other agencies reportedly stemmed the flow using a
As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, the question remains: how big an environmental disaster is this? Observing the surface slick and the deep-sea leak are of limited use in this situation. A more effective approach might be …
With oil still gushing from an offshore well in the Gulf of Mexico, some scientists and environmentalists worry that US federal agencies have not done enough to gather precious data on the spill, now into its second month.
At the time of this writing, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has continued unabated for one month. On April 20, 2010, the Mississippi Canyon 252 Deepwater Horizon oil well exploded, killing 11 people. The rig sank on April 22. Since then, we have witnessed a series …
BP Plc told congressional investigators on Tuesday that pressure tests on a drill pipe showed a fundamental mistake hours before the deadly explosion that caused the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, a memo released by two congressmen showed. The memo by Representatives Henry Waxman and Bart Stupak, who were briefed …
Narayan Lakshman Washington: In a pitched battle to shut off the MC252 well that has been spewing vast amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for over a month, British Petroleum announced plans to use a new technical manoeuvre called a
BP Plc will try to plug an underwater oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico by pumping heavy drilling fluids into a damaged well in the next few days, as the cleanup costs of the monthlong spill accelerate. The so-called
The economist Paul Krugman suggested in his New York Times column earlier this month that the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico could provide the flagging environmental movement with the renewed impetus it so badly needs. The modern movement, he pointed out, gained a great deal of momentum …
