This oil spill 'the bad one' -- recipe for disaster
(AP) -- What makes an oil spill really bad? Most of the ingredients for it are now blending in the Gulf of Mexico.
(AP) -- What makes an oil spill really bad? Most of the ingredients for it are now blending in the Gulf of Mexico.
Environment
May 1, 2010
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These images show the effects of the tsunami on Japan's coastline.
Earth Sciences
Mar 14, 2011
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Over the summer of 2015, 40 million mangroves died of thirst. This vast die-off—the world's largest ever recorded—killed off rich mangrove forests along fully 1,000 kilometers of coastline on Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria.
Earth Sciences
Sep 15, 2022
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Humans are artificially expanding cities' coastlines by extending industrial ports and creating luxury residential waterfronts. Developers have added over 2,350 square kilometers of land (900 square miles, or about 40 Manhattans) ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 9, 2023
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The tiny Miami blue butterfly, reduced to a few hundred survivors on isolated islands off Key West, will be formally declared a federally endangered species on Friday.
Ecology
Apr 5, 2012
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The Mexican government on Tuesday launched a national tsunami system to monitor quakes around the world that could impact the country's coastline, the Interior Ministry said.
Earth Sciences
May 8, 2012
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Impoverished fishermen along the coast of tropical African countries like Mozambique and Madagascar may have only a few more years to eke out a profit from one of their nations' biggest agricultural exports. Within a few ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 20, 2009
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(AP) -- Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that hundreds of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday.
Earth Sciences
Nov 24, 2009
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The northern coastline of Alaska midway between Point Barrow and Prudhoe Bay is eroding by up to one-third the length of a football field annually because of a "triple whammy" of declining sea ice, warming seawater and increased ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2009
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The 200 miles of ocean along California's coastline was once filled with seaweed called bull kelp. The seaweed created rich, underwater forests until the population began to die out in 2014. In the seven years since then, ...
Ecology
Apr 6, 2022
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