Revulsion vs. Hard Choices

25 Jun, 2010 01:24 pm Before America commits to anything beyond the shortest suspension of deepwater drilling, necessary to ensure that the practice can proceed safely,...

BP and the Obama Administration – I Blame You for Ruining My Gulf

24 Jun, 2010 11:44 am The US government had zero capability of its own in place to deal with a spill of this magnitude, meaning all of the technical heavy lifting was squarely...

Another Wake-Up Call for the World’s Biggest Oil Junkie

22 Jun, 2010 12:53 pm OK, America, itÂ’s time to get real about energy. The explosion and destruction of the Horizon deepwater rig and the subsequent oil spill disaster are...

Blame Big Bad B.P. For Now, but Where Is the Next Oil to Come From?

22 Jun, 2010 09:32 am The Deepwater Horizon oil-spill is an unquestionable tragedy, but if there is any defining message to be drawn from it, it is that the age of cheap,...

The Wages of Complexity

18 May, 2010 11:45 am While accusations continue to fly back and forth about who is to blame for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and investigations commence into...

The Exploration of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth in West Antarctica

23 Jan, 2008 09:43 am Ever since the discovery, ten years ago, of Lake Vostok as a large deep freshwater body beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists have been fascinated...

Deep-Sea Biodiversity Conservation Needed to Avoid Ecosystem Collapse

12 Feb, 2008 11:53 am The exploration of the abysses of our planet is one of the last frontiers of ecological research. The dark portion of the biosphere likely hosts millions...

Swiss Geothermal Energy Project Causes earthquakes.

12 Sep, 2007 12:16 pm The Swiss Deep Heat Mining Project, located near Basel and which involves injecting water under pressure in quantity into three mile deep boreholes,...

Surface and Deep Water Processes were Closely Related during Abrupt Change in the North Atlantic over the Past 420000 Years

24 Aug, 2007 11:50 am A recent study (Martrat et al., 2007) based on high-resolution analyses of proxies for sea surface temperature, water mass distribution and relative biomarker...