All tag results for 'oil spill'

Awww this is beary beary sad!!

But, what a simple, effective campaign attempting to reduce Arctic drilling…

The above Greenpeace video features an aimless, homeless Arctic Polar Bear forced out from her chilly, northern habitat due to money-hungry oil corporations and their effect on climate change.

The bear wanders through London's streets with Radiohead's Everything In Its Right Place ominously playing in the background.

Thom Yorke recently addressed the issue of our climate's precarious future, stating:

"We have to stop the oil giants pushing into the Arctic. An oil spill in the Arctic would devastate this region of breathtaking beauty, while burning that oil will only add to the biggest problem we all face, climate change."

So, so true. It's redicuouls to imagine how much money is being poured into an ultimately devastating source of energy, when it could be used to discover new, renewable ways to provide safe, clean energy for our already sick planet…

Help the homeless Polar Bear! Sign the Arctic Scroll HERE!!

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They're dying off the coast of Texas, not like on the plains or something.

That'd be weird.

This is just sad and true though. Over 120 dolphins have died off the coast of Texas.

It's so unusual that a federal agency has actually launched an investigation

Tags: cute, dead, died, disease, dolphin, dolphins, dying, investigation, oil spill, sad, scary, texas, weird, young

Remember that big oil tanker that spilled in New Zealand?

Well, a whole bunch of penguins were released back into their natural habitat after the oil spill was finally cleaned up.

The group of happy birds waddled back toward the ocean to the cheers of a crowd.

What a happy ending for such a terrible oil spill.

Check out the above video to see the happy homecoming.

Tags: natural habitat, new zealand, oil spill, penguins, released

It's turtle nesting season!!!!!!

Much like the puppy bowl, turtle nesting is an adorable event we look forward to all year.

Mother turtles off the gulf cost don't realize that their batch of little darlings are our key to finding out to what extent the BP oil spill affected the gulfs wildlife.

So far the news has been good.

As of May 24, 155 Kemp turtle's nests had been spotted on Texas shores — more than in all of last year and more than had been counted by that day in 2009 and 2008. The same is true for some other sea turtle species, although they have just started to nest so it might be too early to have confidence in those numbers.

And because sea turtles don't reach reproductive age for at least a decade, the full effects of the oil spill might not be known for years.

Some scientists fear that turtles born this season might have reproductive or health issues. Only time will tell.

For now all we can do is wait for some cute baby turtles to hatch!

[Image via WENN.]

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So Sad.

A year after the BP oil spill, endangered sea turtles are still washing up dead on Gulf shores in large numbers.

However, a recent federal investigation suggests that the culprit is likely not oil.

Scientist are now pointing their rubber gloved fingers at fishing nets.

Tags: endangered, investigation, mississippi, oil spill, red sea, turtle

Sad!

Sea Turtles are part of a growing number of dead fish, animals and birds she and other Mississippi residents have photographed washing in with the tides in recent weeks. For Shirley, a trip to the beach no longer provides the same relaxing refuge as before.

One Mississippi resident said:

"It’s very upsetting. I have never found anything like this until after the oil spill. It used to be if you found a dead dolphin or turtle it was front page news around here. Now it’s no big deal.”

There have been 38 dead or stranded turtles collected in Mississippi this year, most in the past few weeks.

Officials say possible causes could range from infectious disease, sudden shifts in water temperature, biotoxins such as red tide or the impact from the BP oil that polluted the area.

The only other Gulf state to report a rise in on-shore turtle deaths this year is Texas with 48, more than twice the number counted in 2009–the year before the BP oil blowout.

That year, the total number of on-shore turtle deaths in the Gulf shot up to 248, nearly five times the number from the previous year.

Scientists say it may be impossible to know if dolphin and turtle strandings are due to the BP oil blowout.

We have to find a cause to these poor animal deaths, and we need to stop it soon!

[Image via WENN.]

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Make it stop!

Marine scientists are debating whether 80-plus bottlenose dolphins found dead along the U.S. Gulf Coast since January were more likely to have perished from last year's massive oil spill or a winter cold snap.

The death toll along 200 miles of shoreline has climbed to at least 82, many times the normal mortality rate for dolphins along the Gulf Coast this time of year.

The die-off has come at the start of the first dolphin calving season in the northern Gulf since the BP blowout.

But scientists at the independent Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama suggested on Thursday that unusually chilly water temperatures in the Gulf may be a key factor.

A senior scientist at the Dauphin Island lab said:

"Everyone wants to blame toxicity due to the oil spill. The oil spill … very well could have been the cause of the dolphin deaths. But the cold weather could have been the last straw for these animals."

Other scientists discount the cold weather theory - saying dolphins can leave cold waters to seek warmer areas.

Hopefully soon we will know the cause, and prevent further death.

[Image via AP Images.]

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