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Posts Tagged ‘marshes’
Politics, Pollution, Aug 6th, 2010,
Yesterday and today BP crews are attempting to securely seal the leak on the blown out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico by pumping in cement. Operation ‘static kill’ has so far been successful in halting the flow of oil into the Gulf, which began on April 20th with the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform. The latest effort began with BP crews pumping in special mud to stop the leak and will hopefully conclude – after the cement on top has dried – with the drilling of two relief wells. The Obama administration recently announced that around…
Tags: BP, cement, Gulf, marshes, oil, positive, scientists, seal, spill, spin, well
Climate Change, Pollution, Jul 13th, 2010,
Iraq’s Mesopotamian marshes, drained under the regime of Saddam Hussein during the early 1990s to punish a local uprising, are recovering nicely due to the efforts of Iraqi conservationists and local inhabitants. This former Garden of Eden is believed by some scholars to be the actual Garden of Eden mentioned in the Bible. You know, where Adam and Eve frolicked and had that nasty run-in with the snake. What was nothing but a wasteland nearly a mere 20 years ago is now once again a thriving ecosystem: The story of this once almost impossible restoration is told in an exhibition…
Tags: carbon, Garden of Eden, Gulf War, Iraq, marshes, Mesopotamian, Middle East, Strategic Foresight Group, war
