Like many folks, we were astonished by the recent ProPublica / The Lens mapping work showing the tremendous loss of marshland in the Mississippi Delta and adjacent parts of the Gulf coast. There is an unholy alliance of factors responsible: the rise in sea level due to melting onshore glaciers and icepack, and thermal expansion […]
If you’ve been wondering “have they cleaned up that chronic crude-oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico from the Taylor Energy site yet?” the answer, sadly, is no. We’re closing in on ten years of continual pollution into the Gulf from this location, with no end in sight. So…what’s the plan? A Landsat-8 satellite image […]
Four years have passed since the BP Oil and Gas Disaster began in the Gulf of Mexico. Some of the lasting damage from that spill is just becoming apparent. One possibility: the acceleration of wetlands loss and coastal erosion due to the die-off of marsh vegetation. The small, isolated islands that dot the bays are […]
Nearly four years after the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil and gas disaster in the Gulf of Mexico — an event that blew away the record books for the nation’s worst accidental oil spill — BP is fully back in business, and drilling is booming in the Gulf of Mexico. Last week the US Environmental […]
We’ve been looking at satellite imagery of offshore Brazil regularly since Chevron’s November 2011 blowout and spill in the Campos Basin. Yesterday Teri noticed what appears to be a 40-mile-long, thin slick about 50 miles offshore in the southern part of the Campos oil field, playing hide-and-seek between the clouds and cloud shadows, on a […]