Sentences with phrase «along with oil spills»

Along with oil spills and over-fishing, plastic pollution has become a major issue for the health of the oceans.

Not exact matches

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

The judges considered the proposals» potential oil - collection rates, along with whether technologies would be rapidly deployable and suitable for use at the source of a spill far off shore.

The oil spill will not just have an environmental impact — the catastrophe, along with efforts to stop it, may reshape the geography of Louisiana's Gulf coast

The biggest oil spill in U.S. history sparked improvements in tanker construction and navigation technology, along with better crew training, but the danger remains

«Due to global warming, oil exploration in the Arctic has become feasible along with the shipment of oil through the Northwest Passage, the water body between Canada and the Arctic that used to be frozen throughout the year, but has now become open for navigation in the summer,» noted Boufadel, a professor of civil and environmental engineering who specializes in the impact of oil spills on coastal regions and, more generally, on oil behavior in diverse environments.

According to an article in the Pensacola News Journal (a Los Angeles Times blog has also picked up the story), they were «chauffeured around in a limo» and put up in condominiums «to get the word out that this summer's BP oil spill is over, and the beach, along with the rest of Santa Rosa County, is open for tourism.»

These efforts are part of 100 - 1000 partnership, with the goal of building 100 new miles of oyster reefs and 1000 miles of replanted marshlands along the Gulf in Alabama to make Alabama's coastal areas more resilient to impacts from hurricanes, oil spills and climate change.100 - 1000 is a project that was formed in 2010 and grew out of the partnership of four conservation organizations including: Alabama Coastal Foundation, Mobile Baykeeper, the Nature Conservancy and the Ocean Foundation.

So I've wondered if hair cutteries saved their hair clippings and this was collected and prepared for eventual oil spills in centrally located places that could transport these supplies along with equipment to oil spills, whether that would be a good idea.

Yesterday, along with ABC's Sam Champion, Philippe Cousteau dove in the oil spill to film a segment for Good