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| Crews take step toward readying permanent well fix
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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:24:03 GMT
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| Tropical Cyclone Birth Predicted with Supercomputer
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Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:50:40 GMT LiveScience.com - It's the heart of hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, the ripest time for tropical cyclones to develop over these waters. But predicting whether or not a storm system will grow into a hurricane is difficult. |
| 3 to be arraigned in Katrina police shootings
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Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:49:17 GMT AP - Three current or former New Orleans police officers will be arraigned on charges they conspired to cover up deadly shootings of unarmed residents after Hurricane Katrina. |
| Post-Katrina Study Shows Strength of Salt Marshes
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Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:45:37 GMT LiveScience.com - Hurricanes Katrina and Rita sent devastating waves through Louisiana's coastal plains in 2005, washing away hundreds of square miles of the state's wetlands. |
| Gas pump prices rise across the country
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Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:25:21 GMT
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| Tony Hayward leaving as BP CEO, US official says
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Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:34:28 GMT
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| Hayward expected to resign as BP looks to rebuild
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Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:23:28 GMT
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| Bonnie fades but disrupts Gulf oil output
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Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:47:50 GMT Reuters - The remnants of Tropical Storm Bonnie dissipated over the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday after the mere threat of the storm took a big bite out of production in the Gulf oil patch. |
| Bonnie barely a tropical depression in Gulf
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Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:55:53 GMT
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| Storm Bonnie's strengthening appears less likely
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Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:01:47 GMT Reuters - Tropical Depression Bonnie could degenerate into an area of low pressure and appeared less likely to gain strength as it moves through the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Saturday. |
| The nation's weather
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Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:52:59 GMT
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| BP to resume oil spill work as storm eases
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Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:45:18 GMT
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| Oil rises spikes near 80 dollars on Tropical Storm concerns
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Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:14:51 GMT
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| Oil spill evacuation will likely last 48 hours: US official
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Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:58:22 GMT
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| BP relief well rigs to move due to storm: Transocean
(Reuters)
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:26:44 GMT Reuters - Two rigs that have been drilling relief wells at BP Plc's Gulf of Mexico oil leak are preparing to move out of Tropical Storm Bonnie's path, a spokesman for the rig operator said on Friday. |
| Typhoon lashes southern China, killing 3
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Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:24:56 GMT
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| Shell pulls nonessentials from Gulf due to storm
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Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:34:59 GMT Reuters - Shell Oil Co began pulling nonessential workers from eastern Gulf of Mexico oil and natural gas operations on Wednesday due to the threat of a possible tropical storm that may emerge by the weekend, the company said. |
| Tropical storm heads to China as flood toll hits 700
(Reuters)
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:26:08 GMT Reuters - Southern China is bracing for its second powerful storm in less than a week, as the death toll from floods and landslides caused by torrential rain climbed beyond 700 with hundreds of others reported missing. |
| WSI cuts U.S. hurricane forecast to 19 named storms
(Reuters)
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:01:54 GMT Reuters - Private weather forecaster WSI Corp cut its forecast for named storms in the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season on Tuesday, but still sees an active season with water temperatures and wind conditions conducive to violent storms. |
| Tropical storm leaves 17 missing in Vietnam
(AP)
Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:02:08 GMT
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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 31, 2010 is:
sirenian • \sye-REE-nee-un\ • noun
: any of an order (Sirenia) of aquatic herbivorous mammals (as a manatee, dugong, or Steller's sea cow) that have large forelimbs resembling paddles, no hind limbs, and a flattened tail resembling a fin
Example sentence:
"Looking humanlike in certain aspects, sirenians are thought to be the basis of the myth of mermaids." (Michael McCarthy, The Independent [London], February 28, 2009)
Did you know?
"Sirenian" traces back via Latin to Greek "seirēn," which is equivalent to our word for the sirens of Greek mythology. And what is the connection between sirens and sirenians? Modern sirenians do not resemble the half bird, half woman creatures who lured sailors to their doom with their sweet singing. But as our example sentence states, sirenians are considered by some to underlie the ancient legends about mermaids. In European folklore mermaids were sometimes called "sirens," and apparently this confusion resulted in the granting of sirenians the name they bear today.