Disasters
B.C. Coast Oil Spill Points Up Enbridge Pipeline Danger
Originally Published by ENS - The Gitga'at Nation of Hartley Bay has reported an oil spill between two and five miles long in the Grenville Channel, not far from the tanker route for the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline.
Posted on
May 8th, 2012
Disasters
First Gulf Oil Spill Arrest: Former BP Engineer Charged
- In the first criminal charges to be laid as a result of a federal investigation into the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a former BP engineer was arrested today on charges of intentionally destroying evidence requested by federal criminal authorities.
Real-time GPS sensor could give earlier quake warning
- Super-precise sensor networks promise to deliver almost instant warnings when strong earthquakes hit, and assess their magnitude more accurately
Posted on
April 25th, 2012
Disasters, Earth Observation
Shell leak ’60 times bigger than it claimed’
Originally Published by The Guardian - As the company faces a lawsuit by residents, an assessment by a US oil spill consultancy casts doubt on Shell's estimate of the Nigerian leak
Gulf of Mexico Still Suffering Two Years After BP Spill
Originally Published by ENS - Following the second anniversary of the blowout of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, the ecosystem continues to suffer.
Posted on
April 23rd, 2012
Disasters
Can whales predict tsunamis?
Originally Published by The Guardian - A British photographer witnessed a school of whales vanishing during an underwater earthquake.
Posted on
April 16th, 2012
Biodiversity, Disasters
Potential for a dangerous tornado outbreak in US Central Plains
- A rare Day 2 outlook from the Storm Prediction Center has a high risk for severe storms across Oklahoma and Kansas.
Posted on
April 15th, 2012
Disasters
Why was the Sumatra quake so large?
Originally Published by New Scientist - The most puzzling question about Wednesday's 8.6 earthquake off the coast of Indonesia is how it got to be so big.
Posted on
April 14th, 2012
Disasters
US offers help to Pakistan as hopes of finding any avalanche survivors fade
- American offer comes after at least 135 soldiers and civilians are buried by wall of snow and debris in country's north.
Posted on
April 9th, 2012
Disasters
Tracking Debris from the Tohoku Tsunami
- Computer models describe the projected path of objects washed out into the Pacific Ocean by the March 2011 tsunami in Japan.
Posted on
April 4th, 2012
Disasters, Earth Observation
NASA Daily Image
Opportunity's Traverse Map From Sol 2951