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Gulf Oil Threat to Florida Waning Fast

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 19 May 2010 in Oil Spill

No one is lowering their guard just yet, but the chances are diminishing that significant amounts of oil from the ongoing Deepwater Horizon spill will soon make it to southern Florida. In part, it is the behavior of the Gulf of Mexico's increasingly infamous Loop Current that could lower the...

Luna Moth

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 18 May 2010 in Animals

So it favorite Animals week, which I may be stretching animals to the insect kingdom, but for today this guy is my favorite. This is a Luna Moth and to some degree they're quite rare. Humans rarely see the moth because they fly at night. They also have become endangered as a result of pollution and ...

Oceans' fish could disappear in 40 years: UN

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 18 May 2010 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 without fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry, UN experts said Monday. "If the various estimates we have received... come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we, effectively, are o...

Oceans' fish could disappear in 40 years: UN

Posted by davebishop on Tuesday, 18 May 2010 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 without fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry, UN experts said Monday. "If the various estimates we have received... come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we, effectively, are o...

The Dirty Side of Clean Coal

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 15 May 2010 in Earth Violators

As long as mountaintop removal mining continues coal cannot be clean, even if the pollution from burning it can be minimized By Douglas Fischer DIRTY COAL Mountaintop removal mining pollutes communities in Appalachia.Courtesy of Douglas Fisc...

Gulf Oil Spill. Did We Learn Anything?

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 13 May 2010 in Oil Spill

The Deepwater Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010 is rapidly moving towards the status of the worst accident in U.S. history, and as the disaster moves into its third week a lot of questions are still unanswered, the most obvious being, when is this thing going to stop spewing? If current estimates fo...

Pressure Mounts on BP as Obama pushes for "Next Steps"

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 13 May 2010 in Oil Spill

(Reuters) - Political pressure mounted on Friday for BP to show progress plugging a massive oil leak while residents of coastal Florida, Mississippi and Alabama learned the growing pool of oil from the leak would not strike their beaches until late on Saturday. The drifting sea of oil could...

Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 2010: BP takes full responsibility for oil cleanup

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 13 May 2010 in Oil Spill

BP said that company assumes full responsibility for the spill that threatens U.S southern coastal area. The company will pay all costs necessary and appropriate cleaning, plus fines and compensation, said BP on its website. Obama toured the affected area and said “BP is responsible for the leak. B...

Size of Oil Spill Underestimated, Scientists Say

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 12 May 2010 in Oil Spill

Two weeks ago, the government put out a round estimate of the size of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico: 5,000 barrels a day. Repeated endlessly in news reports, it has become conventional wisdom. But scientists and environmental groups are raising sharp questions about that estimate, declaring th...

Gulf oyster, shrimp and crab supplies dwindle and prices rise

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 12 May 2010 in Oil Spill

Reporting from New Orleans and Los Angeles As the Louisiana sun beat down on the Westwego Seafood Market, the aisles were as empty as the coolers. Fish hawkers paced alongside sparsely filled counters dotted with shrimp and crabs, calling out in strained voices to the few customers strolling by. Ma...

Gulf oil spill: Alaska senator blocks move to raise oil spill liability

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 12 May 2010 in Oil Spill

May 13, 2010 | 4:34 pm A week ago, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) teamed up with her Democratic senatorial counterpart, Mark Begich, to introduce a bill that would raise the [Correction: liability trust fund for] economic damages from oil spills to $10 billion. On Thursday, she blocked...

Electric Vehicles Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 11 May 2010 in Transportation

Few people are fooled by Nissan’s claim that the LEAF is a zero emissions vehicle. Zero tailpipe emissions does not mean zero emissions. “Electric vehicles just shift emissions from the tailpipe to the smokestack,” many critics claim. Both of these claims oversimplify the issue and...

Climate Bill details unveiled: emissions, clean coal, transportation and much more at stake

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 11 May 2010 in Solar

The so called Climate Bill, formally referred to as the American Power Act (read it in PDF), contains a wealth of information that could impact the environment, transportation, offshore drilling, clean coal and so much more. Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) presented the bill y...

The lasting effects of oil spills

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 10 May 2010 in Oil Spill

As engineers try to cap British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon blowout off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists fear the thick, crude oil that is seeping into the gulf at a rate of nearly 210,000 gallons a day will become an environmental catastrophe of unknown proportions to wetl...

Breathing Healthier Air, EPA lowers sulfer dioxide.

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 in Air Quality

Thank goodness, finally after 40 yrs the Environmental Protection Agency, US, issued standards that lower the acceptable levels of sulfur-dioxide emissions and increase the intervals the gas is monitored. With asthma and other respiratory disease on the rise especially in children and the elderly, t...

What is Ecotourism?

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 27 April 2010 in Ecotourism

The Definition: Ecotourism is: "Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people." (TIES, 1990) Importance to Tourism in Developing Countries: Tourism is a principle "export" (foreign exchange earner) for 83% of developing countries...

Commentary: Earth Day is about recovering the environment and the economy

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 in Peace

By Jane Lubchenco | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Forty years ago, the late Sen. Gaylord Nelson gave birth to Earth Day when he stood up for the environment, calling upon the American people to come together for a simple teach-in on the environment. The first Earth Day was a catal...

Fishing for Sustainability

Posted by ekeith on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 in Fishing

by Nicole Makris From a health perspective, fish and seafood offer benefits that are hard to find elsewhere. Unfortunately, the current consumption of seafood, specifically fish, is wrought with controversy and ecological degradation. Conservation biologists at the Northwest Fisheries Science Cent...

Wind Power Solutions – Wind Power Solutions At Home

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 in Wind

With the planet’s rising need for electricity overstepping its source, it is about time that we take solid actions to preserve electric power. Despite being aware of the consumption of electric power and water at home, the population can make use of green and cheap electric power solutions at our h...

The Mission Blue Voyage – a project of the TED Prize

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 09 April 2010 in Ecotourism

Galapagos IslandsApril 6-10, 2010 Only in Galápagos will you come face to face with wildlife that has never developed a fear of people. With an expedition to the Land of Darwin, you have the opportunity to study blue-footed boobies performing a courtship “dance”, snorkel with playful sea lions, wat...