Scientists predict a brutal hurricane season while Trump takes aim at NOAA’s budget – Grist
Extra-hot oceans could spawn monster storms. Researchers worry that cuts at the agency will interrupt the flow of data for forecasts…
15 years after the BP oil spill disaster, how is the Gulf of Mexico faring? – Mongabay
The Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010, was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico…Fifteen years later, the gulf ecosystem shows a complicated picture of both resilience and lingering damage, with some species, like brown pelicans, recovering, while others, like humans, dolphins and deep-sea corals, continue to struggle with long-term health impacts.
Shocking state of Britain’s waters revealed . . . potentially deadly bacteria double – the Independent
Surge in coastlines, rivers and lakes with unsafe levels of E coli and intestinal enterococci due to sewage spills…
Where does hurricane waste go? We tracked it with Air Tags to find out – the Washington Post
The small 1.54-square-mile Treasure Island would produce over 128,000 cubic yards of debris after the storms — roughly 2 million standard kitchen trash bags worth of waste…