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BP using toxic chemicals to ‘disperse’ spilled oil
Related: Chemical that drags oil to ocean floor being mass produced in Sugarland, Texas The chemicals BP is now relying on to break up the steady flow of leaking oil from deep below the Gulf of Mexico could create a new set of environmental problems. Even if the materials, called…
Gulf Coast oil spill could eclipse Exxon Valdez
Powered by Mochila An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control and drifted inexorably toward the Gulf Coast on Thursday as fishermen rushed to scoop up shrimp and crews spread floating barriers around marshes. The spill was both bigger and closer than…
National Security Adviser’s ‘greedy Jew’ joke deleted from White House transcript
Update at bottom: Jones apologizes, Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman slams ‘inappropriate, stereotypic’ joke; Mediaite: Joke ‘missing, not scrubbed’ President Obama’s National Security Adviser James Jones told a joke stereotyping Jews as greedy merchants to a Washington policy forum Friday night. The remark — little-noticed except in the New York-based Jewish…
Drought blankets Beijing in thick, yellow dust storm
BEIJING (AFP) – Beijingers woke up Saturday to find the Chinese capital blanketed in yellow dust, as a sandstorm caused by a severe drought in the north and in Mongolia swept into the city. The storm, which earlier buffeted parts of northeastern China, brought strong winds and cut visibility in…
Waterboarding sessions brought detainees ‘close to death’: report
Update at bottom: Former UK spy chief says US ‘misled’ allies on torture The waterboarding sessions that terrorist suspects were subjected to during the Bush administration were “administered with meticulous cruelty” and were in part designed so that detainees acted as “guinea pigs” for future interrogation sessions, says an exhaustive…
Chile troops clash with looters after quake
CONCEPCION, Chile — Troops fired teargas and imposed a curfew Monday to stop looters running off with trolleyloads of goods from the wreckage of Chile’s quake as rescuers scrabbled through rubble for survivors. As President Michelle Bachelet said she expected the death toll of 708 to rise, the scale of…
Tsunami waves reach Japan’s coast
“The first tsunami from Chile’s earthquake has hit Japan’s outlying islands, but the initial waves are small,” the Associated Press reports. The article continues, “Japan’s Meteorological Agency said the first tsunami to reach Japan after the magnitude 8.8 quake off Chile was recorded in the Ogasawara islands early Sunday afternoon.…
Iceberg the size of Luxembourg breaks off Antarctica
An iceberg the size of Luxembourg knocked loose from the Antarctic continent earlier this month could disrupt the ocean currents driving weather patterns around the globe, researchers said. While the impact would not be felt for decades or longer, a slowdown in the production of colder, dense water could result…
Watch: Shoppers flee as Dubai shark aquarium cracks open
A massive aquarium tank housing hundreds of sharks in a Dubai shopping center sprang a leak Thursday, sending shoppers fleeing and prompting the mall owners to close large parts of the building. The aquarium tank is one of the world’s largest, holding some 2 million gallons of water and 30,000…
Soldier reportedly holds daughter’s head underwater for failing to recite alphabet
A 27-year-old Washington state soldier allegedly admitted Sunday to having held his daughter’s head in a bowl of water because she couldn’t recite the alphabet. British newspapers labeled the technique “waterboarding,” in reference to the CIA torture measure the Bush Administration employed against terror suspects, though in actuality, waterboarding technically…
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