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Pensacola Beach Reporting
This post is mostly for you far-flung Pensacolians out there. The good news is that, as of Wednesday morning, Pensacola Beach is not slathered in crude. The bad news is that there’s a “sheen” of oil...
View ArticleElections Matter: Oil Gusher Edition
In times of war and disaster, abstract concerns about the size of government are appropriately ignored. One would hope that people would always bear in mind the risks of such catastrophes when...
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Weekend Birdery: Feathered & Tarred
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is collecting dead and injured birds (and other wildlife) in the area of the Deepwater Horizon spill. As of their June 3 report, they collected 123 “visibly oiled”...
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Gulf Spill Infographic
Sorry for all the lame infographic posts lately. I’ll do some real blogging again soon. But in the meantime, check out this cool infographic about the BP oil spill:
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Weekend Spillery: Pelican Brief
Is the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico going to wipe out the brown pelican? Not globally, at least, writes Phil McKenna at the New Scientist: The species as a whole isn’t about to go extinct as a...
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Oily Bird Doesn’t Get the Worm
GrrlScientist writes: When oiled, seabirds are vulnerable to drowning because their feathers’ waterproofing qualities are destroyed and their downy feathers’ insulative properties are lost, leading to...
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Weekend Birdery: Not Good for the Goose
It has been upsetting for bird lovers to see images of gulf birds coated in oil and to watch the casualty counts climb. As of its July 16 report (pdf), the Fish and Wildlife Service had collected 2,095...
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Oil Spills? Don’t Worry, They Happen All the Time
Kate Sheppard shares the map below from a National Wildlife Federation report on the many oil-production incidents which occurred in recent years, before BP captured our full attention. Sheppard...
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Weekend Birdery: Oil Cleanup Crews May Be Worse Than Oil
At coastal nesting sites in Florida, well-meaning oil cleanup crews have inadvertently trampled shorebird nesting sites, apparently becoming as much of a threat as the oil itself in some cases. A...
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Crude, Degrading
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides this chart of where all the spilled Deepwater Horizon oil has gone: Bradford Plumer summarizes: About one-quarter of the oil is still...
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