Earth Day sprung out of concern – driven by a lot of environmental disasters leading up to what congealed into the environmental movement of 1970.
Earth Month!
Tag: pollution
14th Anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
April brings up a lot of events. While Spring has already sprung, it is through April that we can enjoy the warming of the weather and the extending of daylight further into our evening hours (at least above the equator).…
Twelve years since the commencement of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster
It has been twelve years since – due to some reckless, schedule-driven decisions, British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon disaster began.
Are the wheels falling off the oil industry?
While it is 30 years too late, we may be saved from the worst of climate catastrophe as the wheels fall off the petroleum industry.
Earth Day at 50 – Evolution is a state of mind
Who would have imagined that we would be in these circumstances 50 years after the first Earth Day? We all thought the ceremonial designation of a day to honor the Earth was advanced specifically to avoid this grim horizon –…
Ten years after Deepwater Horizon – a transformation?
Today, as we commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon blow-out, oil prices have hit an all-time low. West Texas Crude hit $1 a barrel today. This is in an industry where they need to get $35 a barrel…
NYT Report of whales “self-mitigating” for noise exposure a bit misleading.
A New York Times article is making the rounds about how a captive false killer whale has demonstrated a mechanism for attenuating potentially damaging noises. Paul Nachtigall, the principal investigator of the study has conditioned the subject to de-sensitize its…
Moves to open the Atlantic coast to fossil fuel extraction
We have just submitted our comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the “Atlantic Geological and Geophysical Activities.” The proposals reviewed in the DEIS are for the exploration and mapping of the Mid-Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf for oil…
An Earth Day we won’t forget
On Earth Day two years ago today a tragedy began as a consequence of a number of factors that led up to the loss of control of the Deepwater Horizon “semi-submersible,” dynamically-positioned oil drilling platform. As the disaster unfolded it…
Some good news in improving technologies!
Perhaps one of the more salient benefits of our work on ocean noise pollution is that unlike solid and chemical pollution, when the noise goes away, it is gone. This gives us reasons for optimism, particularly as we see efforts…