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As Isaac steadily weakens and moves off to the north, the clouds are starting to part over the Gulf of Mexico and workers are making their way back to the offshore platforms that had been evacuated. Reports of actual and potential oil spills in the Gulf are coming in to the National Response Center, and […]
Remember that 92-mile-long bilge dump off Congo and Angola that caught our attention back in April? The bright spot at the left end of the slick is likely the vessel that caused it. But the ASAR imagery left an important question unanswered: Who was responsible for this pollution? With the generous help of our new […]
Soapbox time! Here at SkyTruth we’ve been concerned about the loss of the world’s premier tool for offshore monitoring with the demise of the European Space Agency’s excellent Envisat satellite in early April. The successor, Sentinel, won’t be launched until sometime next year at the earliest. Meanwhile, we do have alternatives: RADARSAT, Cosmo-SkyMed, and TerraSAR-X. […]
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 […]
The out-of-control well owned by French company Total in the central North Sea’s Elgin field is still spewing natural gas into the air. The good news is a crew was able to visit the rig yesterday, raising hopes that a top-kill can be conducted by pumping mud into the well from the rig itself, which […]