Glynn Wilson Click on the image for a larger view… Unique among the world’s seven species of pelicans, the Brown Pelican [pelecanus occidentalis] is found along the ocean shores only, not on inland lakes. It is the only dark pelican, and also the only one that plunges from the air into the water to catch…
Daily Archives: May 2, 2010
Waterkeeper Alliance's Chairman Speaks Out on the Gulf Oil Spill
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on CNN Striking the delicate balance between energy needs and environmental risk…
NOAA Closes Down Fishing in Oil Soaked Gulf of Mexico
NOAA The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a bureau of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is restricting fishing for a minimum of 10 days in federal waters most affected by the BP oil spill, largely between Louisiana state waters at the mouth of the Mississippi River to waters off Florida’s Pensacola Bay. The closure is…
Animated Graphic of BP Oil Spill Projected Track
This animation of the Gulf of Mexico oil spil was created using actual overflight information and forecast models from the NOAA and Unified Command. The red dot is the location of the Deepwater Horizon oil well, which exploded on April 20, releasing oil into the Gulf near the Louisiana coast that has yet to be…
BP Tries to Buy Off Town of Bayou La Batre
People, Businesses Offered $5,000 NOT to Sue Over Oil Spill BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. – As the unprecedented oil spill continued to work its way onto the northern Gulf Coast on Saturday, the oil giant BP held what it had said would be a public information meeting in the south Alabama fishing town of Bayou…
Gulf Coast Awaits Landfall of BP Oil Slick
Not sure what’s got this old great blue heron stressed out… Glynn Wilson Is she worried about her nest? Or did she fly far and high and see the coming oil slick? [Click here or on the image for a photo essay — in advance of landfall from the massive BP oil slick headed toward…
Gulf Coast Awaits Landfall of BP Oil Slick
How Many Birds Must Die, This Time? Glynn Wilson What will the great blue herons of West Beach in Gulf Shores do when the BP oil slick reaches shore? Glynn Wilson Can you imagine surviving eating fish soaked in petroleum? Glynn Wilson Hopefully they will have the sense to fly north a ways… Glynn Wilson…
