Atlantic Ocean
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Sandy Strengthens as Hurricane Barrels Toward New Jersey | Esme E. Deprez and Brian K. Sullivan
Oct. 29, 2012 -- NEW YORK (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Sandy strengthened on its path toward New Jersey, where it is predicted to make landfall today while bringing a life-threatening storm surge as it w ...
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Worst Storm in 100 Years Seen for Northeast U.S. | Brian K. Sullivan and Matthew Brown
Oct. 26, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Sandy will probably grow into a “Frankenstorm” that may become the worst to hit the U.S. Northeast in 100 years if current forecasts are correct. Sandy may comb ...
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Sea Levels Rising Fast on U.S. East Coast | Charles Q. Choi
Not clear whether human-caused global warming is to blame, experts say. The last house on Holland Island, Maryland, where 360 people lived before tides took over (file picture). Photograph by Astrid ...
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Seascape With Methane Plumes | John Michael Greer
Methane plume from the sea floor Oct. 25, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- In the wake of last week’s post, I’d meant to plunge straight into the next part of this sequence of posts and talk about the unra ...
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Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction (Marlowe Hood)
Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists warn. June 20, 2011 -- PA ...
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Plastic Particles Circulating Endlessly in World's Oceans (Stephen Leahy)
Marine debris on a Hawaiian beach. Credit:NOAA Mar. 24, 2011 -- HONOLULU, Hawaii (IPS) -- That plastic bottle or plastic take-away coffee lid that has 20 minutes of use can spend decades killing coun ...
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Japan scrambles to avert nuclear meltdown (Taiga Uranaka and Ki Joon Kwon)
Mar. 13, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- Japan fought on Sunday to avert a disastrous meltdown at two earthquake-crippled nuclear reactors as estimates of the death toll from the tsunami that c ...
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Halliburton Knew Cement for BP Well Was Unstable (Jeff Plungis)
Oct. 28, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- The cement Halliburton Co. recommended to seal BP Plc’s Macondo well was unstable in tests and may have contributed to the April 20 blowout, the staff of a national commi ...
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Panel: Gov't blocked scientists on spill estimate (Dina Cappiello)
Oct. 7, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration blocked efforts by government scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could become and committed other missteps that r ...
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Integrity Failure: BP Shifts Blame for Deepwater Horizon Disaster (Lindsay Beyerstein)
An oil slick reaches shore July 4 in Gulf Shores, Ala. Millions of gallons spilled into the Gulf since the April 20 Deepwater Horizon disaster. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Sept. 9, 2010 (In Th ...
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Greenland Ice Sheet Faces 'Tipping Point in 10 Years'; (Suzanne Goldenberg)
Scientists warn that temperature rise of between 2C and 7C would cause ice to melt, resulting in 23ft rise in sea level Aug. 11, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Guardian) -- The entire ice mass of Greenland will ...
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