A fierce storm in the Black Sea split a small tanker on Sunday, causing an oil spill that could lead to significant environmental damage, officials said.
Mr. Firor, an environmental scholar and former director of the National Center of Atmospheric Research, was an early voice linking climate change and human activity.
A preliminary investigation found human error caused a cargo ship to crash into the Bay Bridge, leading to San Francisco Bay?s worst oil spill in nearly two decades, the Coast Guard said Saturday.
At a conference on ?geoengineering,?scientists examined artificial techniques to cool the earth, a subject that many experts have been reluctant to discuss.
Nipping at the heels of various companies using biological methods to develop fuels from plant matter is a new group of entrepreneurs who favor chemistry.
Challenged by strong winds and tides, cleanup crews struggled Friday to contain the spill as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency for the area.
Astronomers reported Tuesday that there were at least five planets circling a star in the constellation Cancer, making it the most extensive planetary system yet found outside our own.
Fiji Water plans to become carbon negative ?that is, to more than make up for the greenhouse gases released in the creation, transportation and sales of its product.
