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Up to 25,000 barrels at DDT dump site in Pacific
Associated Press - Tue Apr 27, 2021
SAN DIEGO, California - Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be as many as 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped off the Southern California coast near Catalina Island, where a massive underwater toxic waste site dating back to World War II has long been suspected. More»

Microplastics in drinking water 'don't appear to pose health risk,' WHO says
CNN - Thu Aug 22, 2019
They may be in our oceans, rivers and ice but there's little evidence to suggest that microplastics in the water we drink pose a risk to our health. More»

Climate change dials down Atlantic Ocean heating system
BBC - Thu Apr 12, 2018
A significant shift in the system of ocean currents that helps keep parts of Europe warm could send temperatures in the UK lower, scientists have found. More»

Doomsday Clock reads 11.57: Atomic scientists move minute hand two minutes forward - and say we are at closest point to disaster in decades
Daily Mail - Wed Jan 21, 2015
Symbolic clock was established by Manhattan Project scientists in 1947. More»

Mother's fish, mercury intake tied to kids' ADHD risk
Reuters - Tue Oct 9, 2012
Children's risk of developing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) later in life may be tied to how much fish their mothers ate while pregnant, according to a US study. More»

Let's Have Neurotoxins for Dinner. We Trust the Supply Chain!
MSNBC - Wed Jun 27, 2012
A federal plan to battle invasive lionfish by dishing them up on America's dinner plates may have backfired with the news that the flamboyantly-finned creatures can harbor a potentially dangerous neurotoxin. More»

Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to US
Associated Press - Tue May 29, 2012
LOS ANGELES - Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away - the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance. More»

Contaminated water found leaking at Japanese nuclear plant
CNN - Sun Dec 4, 2011
Workers at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility have discovered a leak of 45 metric tons of radioactive water, operator Tokyo Electric Power Company said in a statement Monday. More»

Dolphins Brought Body Of Grand Isle Drowning Victim To Shore
WGNO-TV - Mon Jul 4, 2011
GRAND ISLE, Louisiana - The Fourth of July weekend turns tragic with the drowning of a Denham Springs man in Grand Isle. More»

Plankton, base of ocean food web, in big decline
Associated Press - Thu Jul 29, 2010
WASHINGTON - Despite their tiny size, plant plankton found in the world's oceans are crucial to much of life on Earth. More»

Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a 'world-killing' event'
Helium - Wed Jul 14, 2010
Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico may be about to reach biblical proportions. More»

After Gulf swimmers report illness, questions about opening a beach
Christian Science Monitor - Fri Jul 2, 2010
Hundreds of beachgoers told health officials they felt unwell after swimming last week at oil spill-affected Pensacola Beach, Florida. More»

Volunteers ready but left out of spill cleanup
Associated Press - Fri Jul 2, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - BP and the Obama administration face mounting complaints that they are ignoring foreign offers of equipment and making little use of the fishing boats and volunteers available to help clean up what may now be the biggest spill ever in the Gulf of Mexico. More»

Gulf states tracking oil-related illnesses
CNN - Wed Jun 9, 2010
States are tracking the health consequences of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, including respiratory and skin irritation problems in Louisiana and Alabama, health officials said. More»

BP's share price has collapsed more than 40%
AFP - Wed Jun 9, 2010
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - BP's misery deepened Thursday as investors took flight for fear President Barack Obama will exact a heavy price from the British energy giant over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. More»

Rig survivors: BP ordered shortcut on day of blast
CNN - Tue Jun 8, 2010
The morning the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, a BP executive and a Transocean official argued over how to proceed with the drilling, rig survivors told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview. More»

Many Gulf federal judges have oil links
Associated Press - Sat Jun 5, 2010
MIAMI - More than half of the federal judges in districts where the bulk of Gulf oil spill-related lawsuits are pending have financial connections to the oil and gas industry, complicating the task of finding judges without conflicts to hear the cases, an Associated Press analysis of judicial financial disclosure reports shows. More»

Oil confirmed on Pensacola beaches
Associated Press - Thu Jun 3, 2010
For days, CNN's small army of reporters, photographers and producers has been repositioning toward Florida as oil was expected to come ashore in the Sunshine State. More»

Lab tests confirm underwater layers of Gulf oil
Associated Press - Thu Jun 3, 2010
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - Scientists with the University of South Florida say laboratory tests have confirmed that oil from a spewing Gulf of Mexico well has accumulated in at least two extensive plumes deep underwater. More»

Scientists warn of unseen deepwater oil disaster
Associated Press - Sun May 30, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - Independent scientists and government officials say there's a disaster we can't see in the Gulf of Mexico's mysterious depths, the ruin of a world inhabited by enormous sperm whales and tiny, invisible plankton. More»

BP: What Oil Plumes?
Huffington Post - Sun May 30, 2010
VENICE, Louisiana - Disputing scientists' claims of large oil plumes suspended underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC's chief executive on Sunday said the company has largely narrowed the focus of its cleanup to surface slicks rolling into Louisiana's coastal marshes. More»

Scientist locates another vast oil plume in the gulf
Washington Post - Fri May 28, 2010
A day after scientists reported finding a huge "plume" of oil extending miles east of the leaking BP well, on Friday a Louisiana scientist said his crew had located another vast plume of oily globs, miles in the opposite direction. More»

Oil rig inspectors took company gifts, watchdog group finds
CNN - Mon May 24, 2010
Washington - Federal inspectors overseeing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico accepted meals and tickets to sporting events from companies they monitored, the Interior Department's inspector general concluded in a report released Wednesday. More»

Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible
Associated Press - Sat May 22, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said. More»

Massive underwater oil plumes found off US Gulf Coast
BBC - Sat May 15, 2010
Scientists have found vast underwater plumes of oil, one 10 miles (16km) long and a mile wide, in the Gulf of Mexico following last month's rig explosion. More»

Bubble of methane triggered rig blast
Associated Press - Fri May 7, 2010
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO - The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to interviews with rig workers conducted during BP's internal investigation. More»

Feds let BP avoid filing blowout plan for Gulf rig
Associated Press - Wed May 5, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - Petrochemical giant BP didn't file a plan to specifically handle a major oil spill from an uncontrolled blowout at its Deepwater Horizon project because the federal agency that regulates offshore rigs changed its rules two years ago to exempt certain projects in the central Gulf region, according to an Associated Press review of official records. More»

Oil rig explodes off Louisiana coast; 11 missing
Associated Press - Tue Apr 20, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - An explosion rocked an offshore oil drilling platform, sending a column of fire into the sky and touching off a frantic search at sea Wednesday for at least 11 reported missing. More»

Disputed isle in Bay of Bengal disappears into sea
Associated Press - Tue Mar 23, 2010
NEW DELHI - For nearly 30 years, India and Bangladesh have argued over control of a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal. More»

Dangerous staph germs found at West Coast beaches
Associated Press - Fri Sep 11, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - Dangerous staph bacteria have been found in sand and water for the first time at five public beaches along the coast of Washington, and scientists think the state is not the only one with this problem. More»

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