| EPA holding upstate NY hearings on gas drilling By MARY ESCH 2010-09-13T16:53:07ZBINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) -- Hundreds of people on both sides gathered Monday for what are expected to be contentious public hearings on a federal environmental study of a natural gas drilling technique aimed at tapping a rich formation beneath much of the Northeast.... hosted.ap.org |
Study shows latest government spill estimate right By SETH BORENSTEIN 2010-09-23T18:01:39ZWASHINGTON (AP) -- After several missteps, the federal government finally got it right, accurately estimating how much oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, an independent scientific study found.... hosted.ap.org |
Census shows connectedness of world's marine life By SETH BORENSTEIN 2010-10-04T19:14:14ZWASHINGTON (AP) -- The world's oceans may be vast and deep, but a decade-long count of marine animals finds sea life so interconnected that it seems to shrink the watery world. An international effort to create a Census of Marine Life was completed Monday with maps and three books, increasing the number of counted and validated species to 201,206.... hosted.ap.org |
Green: Ruling Favors the Pint-Size Pika A judge orders California Fish and Game Commission to reconsider a decision to deny state endangered species protection to the pika, whose numbers are declining as temperatures risein the mountains. feeds.nytimes.com |
[press release] Greenland Ice Core Team Reaches Bedrock Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen with the last icecore drilled at a depth of 2537,36 m. The last 2 m of ice above the bedrock contains rocks and other material that has not seen sunlight for hundreds of thousands of years.Bedrock has been reached Tuesday July 27 2010 at the deep ice core drilling site North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) on the Greenland Ice Sheet at the depth 2537.36 m. Th... antarctica.ac.uk |