BP oil well no longer 'threat' to Gulf The Daily Telegraph Australia | THE Macondo well, which spilled an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, has been secured and no longer constitutes "a threat", a senior US official says. | "I'm very pleased to announce that with the new blowout preventer on this well, the cement that was pr...
BP spill costs hit $ 8bn as crews unearth clues The Times Of India WASHINGTON: British oil giant BP has spent $ 8 billion to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the company has revealed as its crews retrieved key evidence from the seabed. | Robotic submarines recorded the delicate operation as engineers raised a failed blowout preventer from the ruptured well and b...
Google and Galaxy Zoo could aid global climate project The Guardian | Climate scientists meeting in Britain this week hope to build a database to predict natural disasters precisely. And records of the voyages of the Bounty and Beagle will assist them in their task Victims of Pakistan's floods use a railway track to ...
Miliband accuses coalition of 'greenwash' over North Sea oil The Independent | David Cameron's claim to lead the "greenest government ever" was thrown into the heart of the Labour leadership contest last night, amid concern about plans for a deep-sea drilling operation in the North Sea. | David Miliband, one of the candidates...
NEERI team to study tar ball phenomenon The Hindu | Special Correspondent | Scientists to visit Goa next week | Union Environment Ministry asks NEERI to conduct study | Goa had sought the Ministry's help to solve tar ball issue | Panaji: A team of scientists from Nagpur-based National Environmental ...
Google and Galaxy Zoo could aid global climate project The Observer | Leading climate scientists will gather in the UK this week to finalise plans for a revolutionary project aimed at transforming their ability to predict meteorological disasters. The goal is to create an international databank that would generate fo...
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BP removes cap from plugged oil well The Australian | BP overnight removed a massive cap which had stemmed the flow of oil from its ruptured well deep in the Gulf of Mexico in a key step toward killing the well once and for all, off...
Oil rig blast forces 13 workers into Gulf of Mexico Inquirer | NEW ORLEANS—An explosion ripped through an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday forcing 13 people into the water, one of whom was injured, the US Coast Guard said. | There w...
Oil sheen spreading after rig blast, fire The Daily Telegraph Australia | A 2KM-LONG oil sheen spread overnight from an offshore petroleum platform burning in the Gulf of Mexico off Lousiana, west of the site of BP's massive spill. | Coast Guard P...
BP spends $8b to battle Gulf of Mexico oil spill Gulf News | Washington: British oil giant BP has spent $8 billion to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the company has revealed as its crews retrieved key evidence from the seabed. | Robotic submarines recorded the delicate operation as engineers raised a fa...
BP oil well secure with blowout preventer installed Nashville Tennessean individual: 2 numChar :2397 | -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 3 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 2397 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 2397 | LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 0 | -->--> | NEW ORLEANS -- With a new blowout preventer in place and a 5,000-foot column of cement ...
Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface Breitbart | In this image taken from video provided by BP PLC at 12:23 a.m. EDT, Satur... | ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) - Engineers have hoisted a key piece of evidence in the BP oil spill to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, and investigators will soon get th...
BP spill costs hit $ 8bn as crews unearth clues The Times Of India WASHINGTON: British oil giant BP has spent $ 8 billion to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the company has revealed as its crews retrieved key evidence from the seabed. | Robotic submarines recorded the delicate operation as engineers raised a failed blowout preventer from the ruptured well and began lifting it to the surface in order to hand it...
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The legacy of seven years in Iraq Irish Times | Has anything good come out of the occupation of Iraq? In the week that President Obama formally declared an end to the US combat mission there, commentators are starting to count the final cost of George Bush's nation-building project, writes LARA MARLOW , Washington Corresponent | THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION gave four justifications for its invasion...
