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Today for Throwback Thursday (#TBT) we’re checking out the Aral Sea, which is located in central Asia near Kazakhstan. This was one of the world’s largest saline lakes. In the 1960s that all began to change as rivers that fed the lake were diverted for Soviet irrigation projects to boost cotton production. Since then the […]
The 168,000-gallon fuel oil spill that happened Saturday near Galveston, Texas caused the Coast Guard to temporarily close the Houston Ship Channel. That’s a very busy, narrow waterway connecting the Port of Houston with the Gulf of Mexico and overseas ports. In addition to the environmental consequences of this heavy oil spill, including the threat […]
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 […]
We may now know what caused the large smoke plume we observed on a December 31 satellite image off the coast of Brazil. We learned that repair operations were being done on a pipeline in the Marlim Sul field between two platforms about 10 miles north of the point of origin of the smoke plume. […]
We’re still trying to figure out what caused that big smoke plume we saw in the Marlim Sul oil field of the Campos Basin, about 70 miles off the coast of Brazil, on a December 31 satellite image. So far, we’ve looked at data showing the locations of active exploration wells (where we would expect […]