The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
A salt water pipeline leak offshore Alabama has forced ExxonMobil to halt gas production in the Mobile Bay area of the Gulf of Mexico, the company said on Thursday. A sheen was detected on the water on Tuesday night, one mile south of Dauphin Island where ExxonMobil runs a number …
Auburn University researchers said oil mats submerged in the seabed more than a year after the biggest oil spill in U.S. history pose long-term threats to coastal ecosystems across the northern Gulf of Mexico. The study, released on Tuesday by the school's engineering department, showed that tarballs churned to the …
China is clamping down on offshore oil drillers after a spill by U.S. firm ConocoPhillips in Bohai Bay, requiring tighter controls in a campaign to beef up environmental protection standards ordered by Premier Wen Jiabao. The leak from the Conoco-operated field, while disastrous, emitted less oil in three months than …
Climate change scenarios suggest an increase in tropical ocean temperature by 1–3°C by 2099, potentially killing many coral reefs. But Arabian/Persian Gulf corals already exist in this future thermal environment predicted for most tropical reefs and survived severe bleaching in 2010, one of the hottest years on record. Exposure to …
There is expected to be intense bargaining over the size of any payment concerning the Deepwater Horizon blast Mistakes made by other companies on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig do not affect BP’s potential liability for gross negligence in the Macondo disaster last year, US legal experts have said, keeping …
Findings of the second major investigation by the government into the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, may press BP into putting over $30 billion on the table to quickly settle its outstanding legal headaches. The joint Coast Guard and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement probe into …
Countries move from labs to seas to study the implications of ocean acidification. On a pleasant morning when fifty-four-year-old Australian marine diver David Hannan was gearing to plunge into the deep sea, a bunch of American scientists were ready to set sail for the Arctic Ocean. In another corner of …
BP, running weeks behind schedule and tens of millions of dollars over budget in trying to complete its troubled Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, took many shortcuts that contributed to the disastrous blowout and oil spill there last year, federal investigators concluded in a report released on Wednesday. …
A leak from a shallow water crude oil pipeline in the Main Pass Area of the Gulf of Mexico has led Chevron to shut down its offshore Louisiana Main Pass pipeline network, the company said on Tuesday. Chevron has also shut its Cypress line, the company said. About 15,000 barrels …
Europe's seas are changing at an unprecedented rate as ice sheets melt, temperatures rise and marine life migrates due to climate change, a report by the Climate Change and European Marine Ecosystem Research (CLAMER) project warned. Scientists examined a mass of EU-funded research on the impacts of climate change on …
Radioactive material released into the sea in the Fukushima nuclear power plant crisis is more than triple the amount estimated by plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, Japanese researchers say. Japan's biggest utility estimated around 4,720 trillion becquerels of cesium-137 and iodine-131 was released into the Pacific Ocean between March …
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Wednesday that the government would strictly control new petrochemical projects around northern China's Bohai Bay, as energy giant ConocoPhillips apologized for an oil spill there. Wen, speaking at a Cabinet meeting, said Beijing would strive to cut pollution in and around the bay to …
Coastal fish farms seem to do less harm to nearby plants and animals than previously believed, a new study reveals. And marine ecosystems can recover from this damage surprisingly fast. But the analysis of a single trout farm in a Faroe Islands fjord over nearly a year also shows that …
Environment Protection Agency (EPA) today blamed dumping garbage into Thilafushi lagoon by boats carrying garbage to the island for the increase in the flow of trash to the sea. Addressing journalists after a trip to Thilafushi with Male City Council members, EPA’s Ibrahim Naeem said a huge amount of garbage …
The new ban, covering 760 square miles, makes the entire Sound a no-discharge zone; Connecticut secured the same designation for its portion of the Sound in 2007. The ban, which goes into effect on Thursday, will require an estimated 12,200 recreational and small commercial vessels to dispose of their sewage, …
Clean-up: ships tackle the leak near Penglai 19-3, operated by ConocoPhillips. Maritime regulators have 'thrown the book' at the US group Clean-up: ships tackle the leak near Penglai 19-3, operated by ConocoPhillips. Maritime regulators have 'thrown the book' at the US group An oil spill off the coast of China …
ConocoPhillips said Wednesday that it would establish a fund related to recent spills at its Penglai 19-3 oil field in China's Bohai Bay. "This fund will be designed to address ConocoPhillips's responsibilities in accordance with relevant laws of China and to benefit the general environment in Bohai Bay," the U.S.-based …
An oil spill off the coast of China at a field operated by ConocoPhillips has sparked concerns about discrimination against foreign companies and underscored how Chinese regulators are getting stricter on pollution. China, the world’s biggest consumer of energy, has ambitious plans to develop offshore oil and gas, particularly in …
A group of scientists led by researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) has quantified dust and iron fluxes deposited in the Antarctic Ocean during the past 4 million years. The research study published in Nature evidences the close relation …
US oil-services giant Halliburton said Friday that it was filing a defamation lawsuit against BP over the devastating 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “Halliburton… filed claims against BP in Texas state court for negligent misrepresentation, business disparagement and defamation related to the April 20, 2010, Macondo incident,” …
