It appears that we’ve lost one of the most important tools in the field of Earth observation: on April 8, the Envisat satellite stopped communicating with its handlers at the European Space Agency. While this is not happy news, the satellite was a real workhorse well beyond its expected lifespan and was an outstanding success […]
UPDATE: We figured out who the culprit was! Read all about how we identified the guilty party- FROM SPACE: June 22, 2012: Bilge Dumping? Busted using Satellite Images Original Story: We’ve been collecting quite a number of images showing the ongoing problem of bilge dumping across the globe and here is one that really catches the eye. This […]
Apparently, off southern South America, it’s just outside the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Chile. Here’s another nighttime DMSP satellite image composite from our friends at NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center (as always, click to see a bigger version). We’ve planted it in Google Earth. It was made by combining three years worth of cloud-free […]
We’ve posted about bilge dumping before – the practice of flushing the oily slop out of your vessel, straight into the ocean. It’s illegal in a lot of places, but it is very hard to enforce. SkyTruth’s daily offshore monitoring program just caught this fine (awful?) example of bilge dumping off the coast of Vietnam, […]
After flying journalists over the remnants of the Bonga FPSO oil spill off Nigeria,Shell pointed out that they are not the only polluters in this part of the world, and will clean up another small spill in the area not related to any of their operations. That certainly doesn’t excuse their (much larger) mess but […]