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Posts Tagged ‘AP’
Pollution, Videos & Documentaries, Jul 8th, 2010,
An Associated Press investigation has uncovered the shocking fact that over 27,000 abandoned oil wells lie insufficiently guarded or unmonitored in the Gulf of Mexico. 600 of them are BP wells. The oldest of these oil wells was abandoned in the late 1940s and 3,500 of the wells are officially categorized as ‘temporarily abandoned’, raising questions about whether they are properly sealed. From an AP report: Regulations for temporarily abandoned wells require oil companies to present plans to reuse or permanently plug such wells within a year, but the AP found that the rule is routinely circumvented, and that more…
Tags: 27000, abandoned, AP, BP, Gulf, Mexico, oil, temporary, wells
Climate Change, Green living, Pollution, Recycling, Wildlife & Flora, Feb 25th, 2010,
Not to be outdone by its fellow large expanse of sea and longtime nemesis, the larger Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean can now claim a colossal plastic garbage patch of its own. According to reports from the BBC and AP, the Atlantic ‘Rubbish Patch’ – located within the latitudes of 22 and 38 degrees N in the North Atlantic Ocean – is comparable to the better-known Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The researchers carried out 6,100 tows in areas of the Caribbean and the North Atlantic – off the coast of the US. More than half of these expeditions revealed floating…
Tags: AP, Atlantic, BBC, garbage, great, north, ocean, Pacific, Patch, plastic, poison, pollutants, rubbish, sea, trash
Climate Change, Dec 23rd, 2009,
Over the course of the Climate Change Conference in Denmark, the Associated Press kept their readers up-to-date with news, information and a Climate Pool. Now that COP15 is over, the work of AP is still ongoing. Associated Press Interactive created a new site and interactive mapping system in regards to the COP15 event. On the site, you can check out an interactive graph that allows you to view the pattern of different warming indicators from 1980 to 2009. Choices for the graph include: world temperature, summer sea ice, glacier melt, and carbon dioxide. You can view a global map to…
Tags: AP, Associated Press, Climate Change website, Interactive climate change graphs and maps
