Oil Platform Explodes in Gulf of Mexico; 11 Injured, 2 Missing
An oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico caught fire after an explosion Friday, sending 11 people to hospitals and leaving two missing, authorities said.
People’s Tribunal Defends Native Villages from Dams, Mexico
After listening to the testimonies of people from nine communities that have fought the construction of hydropower complexes in five of the country’s provinces, the members of the PPT issued their verdict condemning the Mexican government and demanding the definitive cancellation of all the hydroelectric megaprojects.
It’s Arithmetic: $4.5 billion Is Small Change For BP
“BP still needs to answer for their gross negligence and these record criminal penalties are a step forward…but this does not pay for the damage BP has done.”
San Francisco Bay Sand Mining Raises Question About Beach Erosion
The sediment in San Francisco Bay, once thought of as a renewable resource, is eroding and being removed much more quickly than nature replenishes it.
BP Gets Record US Criminal Fine Over Deepwater Disaster
BP has received the biggest criminal penalty in US history after agreeing to pay $4.5bn (£2.8bn) to settle criminal charges related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Ha Long Bay Clean-Up Could Force Floating Fishing Village Inland
Vietnamese authorities devise resettlement plan for floating residents, whose dumping of waste is killing their livelihood
Hurricane Sandy Damage Amplified By Breakneck Development Of Coast
Pell-mell, decades-long rush to throw up housing and businesses along fragile and vulnerable coastlines trumped commonsense concerns about the wisdom of placing hundreds of thousands of closely huddled people in the path of potential cataclysms.
Hurricane Sandy Challenges Short-Term Thinking On Nation’s Coasts
America is an aggressively coastal nation. While accounting for just 13 percent of the nation’s total land mass, coastal counties, including those along the two oceans and the Great Lakes, are home to roughly half the U.S. population, the authors noted, and 60 percent of civilian income…
Superstorm Sandy: Interactive Before And After Images
Parts of the New Jersey coastline before and after the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.