Coast Guard Orders Cleanup Of Greatest Offshore Environmental Disaster In US History
A quietly devastating oil spill has been contaminating the Gulf of Mexico for 14 years, and now a massive cleanup effort has been ordered.
A 14-Year-Old Continuous Oil Leak in Gulf Could Overtake Deepwater Horizon
No doubt, you’ve heard of the Deepwater Horizon and the Exxon Valdez oil spills, but how about a 2004 spill involving Taylor Energy?
Largely Ignored Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Is Biggest In Seven Years
Authorities are investigating the cause of the biggest oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon blowout in 2010. It has poured...
Paradise Lost But Remembered By A Few
As I drift back to my days in the Marine Corps, I am especially saddened by the plight of the Puerto Rican people. As our less than bright leader pointed out it is “an island, you know, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean.” Well, close enough, though it’s in the Caribbean which I guess could be called the Southern Atlantic, but it isn’t, it is called the Caribbean.
Irma rips across islands on course toward Florida
MIAMI — One of the most powerful hurricanes on record continued steaming toward South Florida early Wednesday, with its course after three days still shifting....
New Information Sheds More Light On the Asteroid that Wiped Out the Dinosaurs
We know that the 6-mile-wide asteroid that hit the Earth over 65 million years ago at Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula killed the large dinosaurs and immediately...
Five Fallouts From Obama’s Decision to Kill the Keystone Pipeline
After seven years of living in limbo, U.S. President Barack Obama finally killed the Keystone XL pipeline. The $8-billion TransCanada project was supposed to help...
Climate Change Causes Huge Chunk of Louisiana Coastline to Drop Into Gulf
The republicans don't believe in climate change, and where they govern, as in Florida for example, where Miami is losing ground every day to the encroaching...
The Most Endangered Animal in the World
(Newser) A new species of whale has been identified in an underwater canyon in the Gulf of Mexico, but scientists fear they won't have long...
Louisiana: Shark Attacks Boy in Lake Pontchartain
Simply because you're in fresh water don't assume you are safe from prowling sharks. A screaming 7-year-old boy was pulled from Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana...
Maddow: Let’s not forget the George Bush ‘Poop Cruise’ presidency
Maddow compared George Bush’s eight years in office to the Carnival “Poop Cruise,” the cruise ship that went dead in the water in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year, stranding passengers for days with no toilets.
7 Reasons Why Cruise Ship Vacations are a Really Bad Idea
Cruises are often advertised as luxurious escapes from the grinding tedium of our everyday lives. These moving, all-in-one vacations boast entertainment, dining, adventure, relaxation, and...
Just How Important Is This Election?
Mitt Romney is basing his whole campaign on one thing. He contends that the knowledge that he gain as a business man makes him uniquely qualified to understand what it takes to get the economy fired up and running so that the unemployment rate drops like a lead balloon.
Gulf fishermen: BP oil spill killed us
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