In other shocking news, officials in Kuwait have announced that about 90 % of corals in their territorial waters are dead or dying; the first Hourglass
Dolphin found in more than 150 years has washed up on the shores of New Zealand;
Poison - laced mice are being airdropped into Guam to kill a rampant, invasive species of tree snake — there's a video, after the jump — , and in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, an old oil - drilling rig has been turned into a hotel catering to snorkelers and scuba divers — the type of project proposed
by Morris Architects for the (pre-BP spill) Gulf of Mexico.