Tag: oil spill

• Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 07:35 UTC

  Ecological disaster in Tristan da Cunha: penguins and lobster at risk plus threat of rats

  

  A race to rescue up to 20,000 endangered northern Rockhopper penguins from an oil spill in an isolated South Atlantic British island group was under way this week after a cargo ship ran aground.

• Tuesday, May 25th 2010 - 06:15 UTC

  US declares “fishery emergency” in the Gulf of Mexico because of BP oil spill

  

  United States Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Monday declared a fishery disaster in the Gulf of Mexico because of the economic impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on fisheries in the region.