Sand mining ban for North Stradbroke Island, Australia
After 50 years of mining, Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh, announced that the Government will progressively halt sand mining.
1 million times the normal level of methane gas near the Gulf oil spill
Although usually referred to as an ‘oil spill’, the leak is made up of over 40% by mass of natural gas, mostly methane, propane and ethane. Enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone, U.S. scientists said.
A hole in the world
The hole at the bottom of the ocean is more than an engineering accident or a broken machine. It is a violent wound in a living organism, that it is part of us.
Internal Documents: BP Estimates Oil Spill Rate up to 100,000 Barrels Per Day
That is 4.2 million gallons– per day.
Government of Morocco on Tar Sands potential.
There are ten oil shale deposits in Morocco, and the three most-explored, and therefore the most likely to begin commercial production in the near future, are near the city of Tangier, near the Mediterranean sea.
France’s continued fight against toxic algae
The green algae are back on the front of the stage. Beyond their potential danger it is, this time, the costs of collection and treatment that are implicated.
Lampung mangroves could be extinct in 5 years
70 percent of mangrove forests in Lampung Province, Southern Sumatra, are currently in damaged condition.
Coastal Devastation We Don’t Hear About
Perhaps no place on earth has been as battered by oil spills as the Niger Delta, which has endured the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez spill every year for 50 years by some estimates.
Burn Boxes
A field of fire out in the Gulf of Mexico, where leaked BP oil burns by the barrel, is known as the “burn box.”