These microscopic life forms are blooming as a result of the oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from the Macondo 252 deep-sea well

By David Biello

Courtesy of Bangor University.

“The ocean looks blue because red, orange and yellow (long wavelength light) are absorbed more strongly by water than is blue (short wavelength light). So when white light from the sun enters the ocean, it is mostly the blue that gets returned. Same reason the sky is blue.”

Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is Britain’s oldest house, dating back to the Stone Age. Experts said the discovery provides crucial new evidence about the way our ancestors lived.

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A UN panel has added Florida’s Everglades National Park and Madagascar’s tropical rainforest to a list of world heritage sites at risk.

Unesco’s World Heritage Committee said development in the Everglades had caused water flow to fall 60% in the wetland, a major wildlife sanctuary.

The pollution level there was so high it was killing marine life, it added.

Susan Shaw shows evidence that pumping toxic dispersant into the Gulf is sparing some beaches only at devastating cost to the health of the deep sea.

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