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Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
By FRAN RIMROD November 11, 2009 - 10:40AM There are fears the oil that spewed from a leaking well off the West Australian coast has polluted a stretch of the Indonesian coastline, jeopardising the local fishing industry. The Greens are calling on operator PTTEP Australasia to compensate West Timorese fishing communities in West Timor if reports of oil reaching the coastline are confirmed. Greens senator...
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Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
By Rebecca Lindsey, NASA’s Earth Observatory More than two months after a blowout at a newly dug oil well, crude oil and gas condensate continued to leak into the Timor Sea, between northwest Australia and Indonesia. According to news reports, the company responsible for the leaking well has tried to cap it three times without success. This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer...
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Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
By MARIAN WILKINSON ENVIRONMENT EDITOR, October 31, 2009 LARGE numbers of whales, dolphins, turtles and sea birds are feeding in waters polluted by the massive oil spill off the West Australian coast and are likely to be at ''immediate risk'', a new report released by the federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, reveals. A leading ecologist, James Watson, was commissioned by Mr Garrett's department...
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Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
By Phil Mercer, Sydney, 20 October 2009 Australia's worst oil slick since the mid-1980s is now tainting Indonesian waters. Fishermen in West Timor say contaminated fish are making villagers ill. Oil began leaking two months ago, following an accident on the West Atlas drilling platform, which lies about 200 kilometers off the coast of Western Australia. Since then, the millions of liters of oil have...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- The area affected by the Montara oil spill off the Kimberley coast contains a huge amount of marine life, including some of the most iconic and threatened species in the ocean, according to a marine wildlife survey conducted by WWF.
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Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
11-09-2009 An expedition to find the Critically Endangered Fiji Petrel Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi at sea has been successful, returning with stunning images and new information on one of the world’s least-known seabirds. The expedition was partially financed by a grant from the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme and its official sponsor, the British Birdwatching Fair. The team included...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
Yale University scientists say they have discovered evidence of vivid iridescent colors existing in feather fossils more than 40 million years old. The researchers said their finding represents the first evidence of a preserved color-producing nanostructure in a fossilized feather. Iridescence is the quality of changing color depending on the angle of observation, such as the rainbow of colors seen...
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
Loggerhead turtles are among the species threatened by the oil slick. Photo: Damien du Toit via flickr. Reuters reports that a leaking Australian offshore oil well will continue to spill oil into the Timor Sea for nearly two months. That's how long it take to fix the blow out -- two mi... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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IOL (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
Planes have sprayed chemicals to break up a large oil slick off the north-western coast of Australia amid fears for the safety of rare wildlife in the region.
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
Photo via the NY Times An explosion at Russia's largest power generator —the Sayano-Shushenkaya hydroelectric plant in Siberia—has killed at least 12 people, and another 64 are thought to be lost in the wreckage. It's an environmental disaster of monumental proportions: in addition to the tragic deaths, the damaged plant has released an oil slick over 10 miles of the surface of nearby...
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Science Fiction and Other ODDysseys (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Wow! This was hard. Good thing I don't do this for a living. I so enjoyed all the wonderful stories people sent in. And my apologies for being a day late with the announcement. We need a drum roll here... Oh, first a refresher for those who don't know what the heck I'm talking about. On July 17th I ran a little flash (under 1K words) fiction contest in answer to the news item in the Anchorage Daily...
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
Part of Interstate 95 in Brevard County has been closed because of an oil slick, which has caused several crashes. Palm Bay police are advising drivers to avoid the northbound lanes at Palm Bay Road and take alternate routes. No further details were available.
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Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
IT'S NOT OIL: No one in the area can recall seeing anything like it before. By Don Hunter Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow. Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It's thick and dark and "gooey" and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters, according to Gordon Brower with...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 03/12/2009
A cargo ship has lost 30 tons of oil off the coast of Australia, threatening beaches and marine life.
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MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 02/27/2009
The Russian navy finally admitted Friday it caused an oil slick off Ireland's southwest coast — 12 days after authorities first spotted it and linked it to a breakdown-prone aircraft carrier.
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