Month: September 2014

Sept. 3, 2014 by John Amos, SkyTruth - Playing Hide-and-Seek! With an Oil Tanker... Supertankers loaded with crude have been making the news recently, mostly because they can't find a place to sell the stuff. These tankers departed from Kurdistan, but Iraq claims the oil they carry is their property and the Kurds don't have the right to sell it.  This global political dispute is playing out on the water in an interesting,…

By Bob Marshall, Al Shaw, Brian Jacobs, et al. Originally published on ProPublica - http://projects.propublica.org/louisiana/ Louisiana is drowning, quickly. In just 80 years, some 2,000 square miles of its coastal landscape have turned to open water, wiping places off maps, bringing the Gulf of Mexico to the back door of New Orleans and posing a lethal threat to an energy and shipping corridor vital to the nation’s economy. And it’s going to get worse, even…