Fish Bird Kill Worldwide

UPI Sports Calendar for Saturday, Jan. 8
Published: Jan. 7, 2011 at 11:30 PM Pittsburgh vs. Kentucky at Birmingham, Ala., noon St. Johns at (15) Notre Dame, 8 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at St. Louis, 8 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Jane Krakowski's publicist confirms the U.S. television actress is pregnant with her first child. COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Bacteria consumed almost all the Methane released in the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, which may give clues to Climate Change in the Arctic, U.S. researchers say. U.S. President B...

Doves fall from sky in Italy
FAENZA, Italy, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- More than 1,000 turtledoves are among the birds found dead in northern Italy and all had blue tinge to their beaks, officials said. Scientists said the blue colorization indicates poisoning or hypoxia, which is a lack of oxygen that can confuse animals, The Daily Telegraph reported. Authorities said millions of dead fish are also washing up on riverbanks and coastlines. Italian officials said testing to determine the cause of death are expected Monday. The report i...

The Birds Keep Falling! But What Does It All Mean?
The Huffington Post reported on this earlier today. UPDATE: Hundreds and possibly thousands of dead birds have reportedly fallen from the sky in Italy. UPDATE: Wildlife officials say that even more previously unreported dead birds were found in Kentucky last week. Millions of dead fish surfaced in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay in the U.S., Tuesday, while similar unexplained mass fish Deaths occurred across the world in Brazil and New Zealand. On Wednesday, 50 birds were found dead on a street in Sw...

At least nine incidents of mass animal deaths across the globe
Blue stain believed to be sign of poisoning or hypoxia - lack of oxygen that is precursor to altitude sickness Cold weather and overbreeding blamed for Deaths of two 2million fish in Chesapeake Bay Disease behind Deaths of 100,000 fish in Arkansas River At least nine incidents of mass animal Deaths across the globe Hundreds of confused birds plummeted to their Deaths in multiple locations in the U.S. Rapid movement of Magnetic North Pole towards Russia may have caused bird deaths Thousands of...

No 'aflockalypse'
Some commentators have dubbed it "the aflockalypse" - instances of mass bird Deaths that have perplexed observers over the past week. So why have birds quite literally been falling out the sky? It all started when residents of Beebe, in the US state of Arkansas, woke to find thousands of dead blackbirds strewn across roads on 1 January. Then, in Louisiana, about 500 birds - including starlings, cowbirds and redwing blackbirds - rained down from the skies. Only days later, news outlets...

Study: Undersea bugs ate natural gas released in oil spill
Deep sea Bacteria completely devoured much of the Natural Gas released in the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, a scientific team concluded Thursday. The findings help build the case that ocean bottom bugs are a natural biofilter that regularly dine on natural seeps of Methane, or natural gas, and related chemicals worldwide. Methane was the most abundant component of the summer oil spill. About 220,000 tons was released from April to July. The finding adds to evidence that deepwater microbes also cons...

Gulf oil spill methane bloom disappears
Methane from the BP Oil Spill was consumed by bacterial blooms.Photo: Greenpeace InternationalTwo months after the BP oil spill, scientists discovered Methane concentrations in the Gulf of Mexico were a million times greater than background levels. "Based on past data and research, we thought the Methane would persist in those deeper plumes for years," Dr. John Kessler, an Assistant Professor of oceanography at Texas A&M, said in an interview. In June, Kessler and scientists from the Univers...

Gulf oil spill study's surprising find: bacteria ate methane in three months
The study's leaders say rates of Methane decomposition after the Gulf Oil Spill 'were faster than had ever been recorded in any other place on the planet.' Other scientists are cautious about the results....

Officials: Lake Meredith fish kill blamed on algae, not connected to worldwide animal deaths
A mass fish kill that prompted Lubbock officials to add a chemical to city water was being blamed on a toxic algae bloom - and certainly not being connected to recent reports of mass animal Deaths around the country, officials said Thursday. Between 10,000 and 20,000 gizzard shad were found dead last week in Lake Meredith, prompting Lubbock officials to continue adding a chemical to Lubbock water to prevent a possible fishy odor from reaching Hub City faucets. The fish kill triggered state of...

Gulf Oil Spill Still Fouling Louisiana Marshes
PORT SULPHUR, La. — Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster remains in marshes off the coast of Louisiana, where officials renewed complaints Friday about the cleanup effort by BP and the Federal Government. State and parish officials took media on a boat tour of Barataria Bay, pointing out areas where oil is collecting in marshes and protective boom is either absent or overwhelmed by the oil. "This is the biggest cover-up in the history of America," said Plaquemines Parish President Bil...

BP report spreads blame
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. presidential commission report spreads the blame for the death of 11 workers in the Explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig last April and the subsequent leak of more than 4 million barrels of oil into the sea. A portion of the final report of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling was released this week. The full report is set for release next week. U.S. President Barack Obama established the commission to f...

Gulf Oil Spill Tarballs Wash Ashore Again At Grand Isle, Louisiana
WDSU New Orleans: The mayor's office said Tar Balls are coming ashore on Elmer's Island and sand dollar-sized patches of oil are washing up in Grand Isle. Read the whole story: WDSU New Orleans Get HuffPost Green On Twitter and Facebook! Know something we don't? E-mail us at [email protected] ...

One more thing that is better than we thought NOAA: the atmospheres self-cleaning capacity is rather stable
Yesterday we learned that the great Pacific Garbage Patch really isn’t as big as hyped by media, today we learn that the “atmosphere’s ability to rid itself of many pollutants is generally well buffered or stable”. Huh. Imagine that, the planet isn’t broken as easily as some imagine. Aidan Colton at NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory (MLO) demonstrates how early flask samples were filled at the site. Air collected year-round at MLO and eight other remote sites around...

Michael Brune: Scary Myths and Scarier Realities
Only a couple of days into the new Congress, Representative Mary Blackburn and at least 46 colleagues have proposed an air-pollution solution that's both simple and ingenious: Pass a law declaring that pollutants aren't pollutants. Blackburn's bill, H.R. 97, states: "The term 'air pollutant' shall not include Carbon Dioxide, water vapor, Methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarb ons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride." If only it were that simple. Unfortunately, sulfur hexaflouoride isn't...

Tennessee tops states in child immunization rate
Nashville, Tennessee | Fri Jan 7, 2011 4:02pm EST Nashville, Tennessee (Reuters) - Tennessee, a state best known for Country Music, is first in the nation in providing early childhood immunizations, according to a national health ranking report. "No child should suffer from something that is preventable," said Dr. Kelly Moore, medical director for the Tennessee Immunization Program, in an interview on Thursday. America's Health Rankings put Tennessee first for 2010 for immunizing Children age...

Bird brains
Matt Drudge has ginned up a storyline: Thousands of birds suddenly fall out of the sky. Apocalypse? Global cooling? A rare disease? Normal. From the National Geographic: But the in-air bird Deaths aren’t due to some apocalyptic plague or insidious experiment — they happen all the time, scientists say. The recent buzz, it seems, was mainly hatched by media hype. At any given time there are “at least ten billion birds in North America… and there could be as much as 20 billion...

Is the government poisoning us with fluoride, after all?
My secret, definitive (and unpublished) profile of Gene Sperling! "Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?" -- Gen. Jack Ripper, "Dr. Strangelove" Wait...does Friday's news that some Americans' water may be over-fluoridated mean that fellow from "Dr. Strangelove" was right? Has the government really been polluting our precious bodily fluids for a full half century? Get me a glass of rain water and pure-grain alcoho...

Dead birds, dead fish now being reported worldwide
It began on New Year’s Eve in Beebe, Arkansas with the discovery of 5,000 blackbirds that had fallen from the sky dead. The next day, 100,000 fish were found dead in the nearby Arkansas River.  2 days later, more than 500 blackbirds turned up dead in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Dozens more birds have been reported dead in Gilbertsville, Kentucky. Now reports are coming in from all over the world of millions more dead fish and dead birds. The sudden, worldwide death of millions of...

Methane gobbled by bacteria gluttons in the Gulf
Image by SkyTruth via Flickr Washington Post: Last August, just two days into a research cruise to study Methane gas spewed into the Gulf of Mexico by the Deepwater Horizon gusher, Texas A&M University oceanographer John Kessler turned to one of his colleagues and said, "Well, it looks like it might be gone. What do you think?" The huge wallop of Methane burped up from deep inside the earth was, in fact, missing. Kessler and his colleagues now report in Science that a huge swarm of gas-gob...

Gulf spill could yield climate change clue
Scientists say Bacteria, evolved to process naturally seeping Methane, multiplied dramatically in the gulf following the April explosion that sank a BP Oil Rig and spawned the leaking of missions of barrels of oil, the BBC reported Friday. This has scientists looking at the Arctic seabed and its fast stores of Methane, the release of which could accelerate Global Warming around the world. The gulf research could help scientists predict how serious methane releases in the Arctic could be, how muc...

Specific ideas Democrats have for imposing their agenda
The EPA has the authority, without the vote of Congress, to impose any Regulations they desire, using the Clean Air Act to force companies to pay for expensive new equipment or to pay for greenhouse Gas Emissions. This will force those companies to raise their prices to consumers. If a state, such as Texas, refuses those mandates, the EPA will slow down or refuse gas permitting authority The Bureau of Land Management, again without Congressional consent, can and probably will put ever more land ...

Could Birds and Fish dying, earthquakes, John Wheeler,be tied together
I reported about the animal deaths and Earthquakes last week last week. The following article was sent to me by a friend. The article ties in everything from the dead birds, fish, and earthquakes, to the mysterious death of John Wheeler.  There is one question the article does not answer. Why are birds and fish dying all over the world? I can’t say that I believe what was written especially with the end piece of Propaganda. I just thought this was an interesting take from a source out...

COL FB: LSU 41, Texas A&M; 24
ARLINGTON, Texas, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Jordan Jefferson threw for three touchdowns and ran for another Friday in rallying LSU from an early Deficit to a 41-24 win over Texas A&M; in the Cotton Bowl. For the first time in the 75-year history of the event, the Cotton Bowl game was not played in Cotton Bowl Stadium. The contest was moved to the new 90,000-seat Cowboys Stadium in hopes of eventually making it one of the attractions in the BCS series. Texas A&M; took a 10-0 lead before Jefferson warmed up a...

This week in science
Crazy Doc McElroy pens an op-ed and the Bad Astronomer takes a whack at it so I don't have to. Who is McElroy you ask? The former head of the Texas Board of Education: Mind you, this is the one and the same Texas BoE that has been fighting teaching kids about evolution tooth and nail, which downplayed the Big Bang Theory, which took Thomas Jefferson out of the standards, which praised Joseph McCarthy, which screwed up the state standards so massively California issued a warning that it would b...

Jefferson rallies LSU to Cotton win over Aggies
LSU Wide Receiver Terrence Toliver makes a 41-yard touchdown reception as Texas A&M's Dustin Harris defends during the second half of the Cotton Bowl NCAA College Football game, Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. With rumors swirling about LSU coach Les Miles' future, Jordan Jefferson threw three touchdown passes to Terrence Toliver and ran for a score to help the 11th-ranked Tigers rally for a 41-24 victory over No. 18 Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl on Friday night. Miles is like...