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Containment dome hovers over leaking wellhead, everything else hovers in the balance
The containment dome is lowered. (USCG photo) The containment dome intended to cap the leaking oil wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico is hovering some...
May 7, 2010
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Media helicopters force Gulf birds to abandon nests
Media helicopters are disturbing brown pelicans in the Gulf. (USFWS photo) Birds in the Gulf of Mexico have a new enemy: some members of the...
May 8, 2010
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³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Oil Spill Response Team Update #2: Bring in the troops ... and booms
Gretna, Louisiana, 1:04 a.m. Difficult news today. ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ's Dr. Greg Butcher and I were present in Venice, La., this afternoon when Gov. Bobby...
May 9, 2010
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Oil Spill Update: First Oiled Birds Released Today, Containment Setbacks, Media Copters Disturb Nesting Birds, and More
Northern Gannet. Photo: Glen Tepke Brown pelican. Photo: USFWS Oil spill cleanup crews and wildlife rescuers are...
May 10, 2010
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In Limbo In Louisiana: Birds on Pelican Island Engaged in a Waiting Game
³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Director of Bird Conservation Greg Butcher, by David J. Ringer The call came Wednesday night, May 5. Would I be willing to fly to Louisiana...
May 10, 2010
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Oil Spill: Simple Graphs Explain Spill Size, Wildlife Recovery Time, & More
When it comes to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I'm feeling overwhelmed by all of the numbers being thrown around. Luckily, David McCandless...
May 11, 2010
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A Great Lakes Adventure: Bird Banding in Toronto's "Accidental Wilderness"
Yellow Warbler. Photo courtesy of TRCA Over a five-year span, bird number 2210-5811 turned up in the mist nets of the Tommy Thompson Park bird...
May 11, 2010
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The Political Response to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Louisiana Congressman Charlie Melancon, and Department of Homeland Security...
May 12, 2010
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Oil Spill Update: Two More Birds Recovering, BP and Other Execs Point Fingers, and More
Brown pelican at Breton NWR, 5/4/10 (Photo by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS) Yesterday marked three weeks since the Deepwater Horizon...
May 12, 2010
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Want a Salad for Lunch? Go Pick It From the Company Garden
Google's campus garden in Mountain View. The company is one of the growing number planting employee vegetable gardens. Courtesy Google There’s no...
May 12, 2010
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³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Oil Response Team Update #3: Taking care of birds
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1:10 p.m. Contact with oil can have disastrous effects on seabirds and shorebirds, weakening them slowly or killing them...
May 12, 2010
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If the Oil Spill was in Your Hometown
Two hundred thousand gallons of crude oil spilling out of the Earth per day and spreading across the ocean is hard to visualize. We don’t often run...
May 12, 2010