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Seattle Times, 19.04.13 09:42 UTC

3 years later: oil spill cleanup, study carries on

At first glance, the marshy, muddy coastline of Bay Jimmy in southeast Louisiana appears healthy three years after the nation's worst offshore oil spill. Brown pelicans and seagulls cruise the shoreline, plucking fish and crabs from the water. Snails hold firm to tall blades of marsh grass.

worst offshore oil spill  Oil spill cleanup  Bay Jimmy  Louisiana  Florida  Alabama  +14 more

Seattle Times, 13.04.13 04:02 UTC

Beavers prevail in habitat conflict, for now

A coalition of agencies that deals with endangered fish has decided a beaver dam may remain in a channel that provides refuge for juvenile salmon.

Jeff Osborn  Columbia River  Wenatchee River  license program coordinator for the Chelan County PUD  USD  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service  +2 more

CNN Top Stories, 12.04.13 20:26 UTC

Don't let the weather kill you

(CNN) -- A series of deadly storms that pummeled Arkansas, Missouri and other states this week reminds us that tornado season is upon us once again. Tornadoes kill 70 people and injure 1,500 more ...

Android  Smartphone  the Weather  USD  American Red Cross  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  +13 more

CNN Top Stories, 12.04.13 17:53 UTC

Scientists: Last summer's drought not man-made

(CNN) -- Extreme natural events, not man-made climate change, led to last summer's historic drought in the Great Plains, a new federal study said Friday. Drought occurred in six Plains states between ...

Kansas  North Dakota  CNN International  meteorologist   Study leader   National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  +7 more

NPR, 11.04.13 18:35 UTC

'Sandy' Retired From Storm Names; 'Sara' Takes Its Place

"Sandy has been retired from the official list of Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone names by the World Meteorological Organization's hurricane committee because of the extreme impacts it caused from ...

USD  World Meteorological Organization  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  Cuba  United States  Jamaica and Cuba  +3 more

Seattle Times, 11.04.13 16:34 UTC

Sandy retired from tropical storm name list

Sandy is being retired from the list of tropical storm names because of the catastrophic damage its massive size and strength caused along the East Coast last year.

World Meteorological Organization  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  east coast  East Coast 

NPR, 09.04.13 07:07 UTC

Starving Baby Sea Lions Flood Southern California Shores

In recent months, more than 1,000 starving baby sea lions have been found on Southern California beaches, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has just ...

food  Southern California beaches  California sea  California  Marina del  Fisherman's Wharf  +10 more

The Register, 08.04.13 23:35 UTC

Climate change set to bumpify transatlantic flights, say researchers

Rising sea levels, droughts, torrential downpours, "superstorms" – climate change has been blamed for a flood [Ahem...—Ed.] of calamities, but new research shows that an even worse global ...

Manoj Joshi  Gary Ellrod  Rising sea  Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory  British Airways PLC  Europe  +6 more
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