Image source   Opinion: NORCALGUY111 Have you ever seen the "marine life" at a depth of  some 4,500 feet.  When the oil's specific gravity exceeds 1,0 it sinks.  It is nothing more than an inert, organic mass. The sea floor throughout the Santa Barbara Channel is lined with tar balls from seeps

The lorries are a chief reason why Delhi’s air is now more toxic than any other city’s on earth. Admittedly Beijing has a worse reputation, with its visible smog from particulates of 10 microns or smaller, known as PM10. Views:Bill DormanAir pollution remains a problem in many parts of Asia. While

Air pollution may double a pregnant woman's risk of having a child with autism, according to a study published December 18 in Environmental Health Perspectives. Researchers mined data from a study that followed 116,430 U.S. women since 1989 and analyzed pregnancy outcomes in relation to where the

Oil that gushed from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon site may be lying low. As much as 16 percent of the approximately 5 million barrels of oil let loose into the Gulf of Mexico may have settled into the seafloor, within a 40-kilometer radius of the damaged oil well. That sunken oil may account for up

Swollen rivers may be the unexpected fallout of billowing smog. By intercepting sunshine and shading the Earth, polluting particles can stifle evaporation, leaving extra water to flood local waterways. Dirty air can load rivers with up to 25 percent more water than they would have under cleaner