Another great find by OPB's Vince Patton: Check out this BBC tool for sizing up historic places and events. The mapping program overlays your zip code (or any other you choose) with the size and shape of icons such as the Twin Towers, the moon, the Great Wall of China or the Burning Man festival. Continue reading →

Filed under: Water, Gulf oil spill

I have to agree with this story from today's St. Petersburg Times about all the mixed messages on the ecological aftershocks of BP's oil spill (gusher, to be precise). And I'd argue it's especially difficult to decode the daily, flip-flopping stories (plume/no plume et al.) when you're in the opposite corner of the country from where all the action is. Continue reading →

Filed under: Water, Gulf oil spill

In the news today: Continue reading →

Filed under: Air, Energy, Fish & Wildlife, Renewable energy, Water, Agriculture, British Petroleum, Gulf oil spill, Natural gas, Wolves

Eric de Place at Sightline Institute's Daily Score Blog dropped this bombshell after new estimates pegged the BP oil spill at 5 million barrels: The U.S. has a BP-sized leak of greenhouse gas every three hours. Continue reading →

Filed under: Air, Energy, British Petroleum, Cap and trade, Gulf oil spill, Pollution

Continue reading →

Filed under: Fish & Wildlife, Ecosystem services, Gulf oil spill

Continue reading →

Filed under: Energy, Water, Clean Water Act, Gulf oil spill

Continue reading →

Filed under: Water, Gulf oil spill