Sentences with phrase «of oiled birds»

Images of oiled birds and turtles, crude - covered marshlands, and shuttered businesses are now sadly

Since then, 22 families have been evacuated from their homes, the appearance of oiled birds and wildlife has raised concerns the oil has spread beyond the neighborhood and we've learned that a legal technicality exempts Exxon from being required to contribute money to a federal oil spill cleanup fund.

We know this because we've all felt the pain of the oiled birds and stained beaches over these past 100 days — everyone in the country, but those keenest who were closest to it.

«You could have multiple peaks of oiled birds.

Only a small fraction of oiled birds are ever found — many die at sea or on remote shores.

The International Bird Research Rescue Center, one of two organisations heading up the treatment of oiled birds in the Gulf, claims that 50 to 80 per cent of the birds treated survive at least to the point of where they can be released back into the wild.

Not exact matches

Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration for selling oil and gas leases on huge swaths of Western U.S. public lands while allegedly ignoring policies meant to protect an imperiled bird.

«Your oil is really dirty», they say, flashing National Geographic photographs of birds and bitumen - filled tailings ponds.

However, when you consider that the Deep Horizon spill cost 42 Billion US to clean up and they only recovered 3 % of the oil while 250 million of birds, thousands of mammals, unknown millions of fish, and countless numbers of mammals, whales, turtles shellfish, and other marine life were killed.

From the outraged hyperbole frothing from the lips of pro-Kinder Morgan supporters, you would think Premier John Horgan had flipped the Queen the bird with his campaign pledge to «use all the tools in the toolbox to stop» Kinder Morgan's controversial oil tanker - pipeline proposal.

The Trump administration wants to ease restrictions on oil and gas leasing and other activities across a huge swath of the American West that were put in place to protect an imperiled bird.

The many unmarried women of his generation are doomed «bird [s] in an oil slick» awaiting the fast - approaching moment when the «now - prohibitive sagging of [their] flesh» condemns them to «a lasting solitude.»

3 cups butternut squash, cubed 2 cups green beans, trimmed and cut into 2 - inch pieces 1 cup, packed, baby spinach 1 package extra firm tofu, cut into 1 - 2 inch cubes 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 5 garlic cloves, chopped 1 tablespoon chopped ginger 1 small shallot, finely minced 1 serrano chili, chopped 14 oz (1 can) coconut milk salt and pepper to taste pinch of chili pepper flakes (I used bird's eye chili flakes, which is hotter than regular red pepper flakes.

Pour the 2 tablespoons of olive oil into the bottom of an oven proof pan, large enough to hold all the spuds and the bird.

Rub the outside of the bird with olive oil, season with sea salt and pepper.

Rub the chicken with the olive oil and place the bird on top of the bread, breast side up.

This spatchcocked bird is roasted in a thyme and fennel seed oil over a bed of onions and lemon.

Roast bird, breast side up, in a large, lightly oiled roasting pan on the lower portion of oven at 350 degrees F. for first 30 minutes then reduce heat to 325 degrees F. Continue to roast, basting often, until thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh reads 180 degrees F. about 2 to 2 1/2 hours.

I used a poultry seasoning I found in my spice cabinet, and rubbed the entire bird with just a tiny bit of extra virgin olive oil first (you could also use butter).

Add a slick of oil to the pan and place the bird skin side down grill, then cook until the skin is so crisp you might just peel it off and eat it right now, about 25 to 30 minutes.

For the fourth time, Shedd Aquarium, a leader in animal care and conservation, has teamed up with the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Costal Birds, SANCCOB, a non-profit that works to reverse the decline of seabird populations through the rescue, rehabilitation and release of ill, injured, abandoned and oiled seabirds.

Europe's oil companies are hovering like a flock of carrion birds over the carcass of Gaddafi's regime.

EU rules dictate everything from the maximum size of containers in which olive oil may be sold (five litres) to the distance houses have to be from heathland to prevent cats chasing birds (five kilometres).

But several reports, including a pair of recent small - scale radio - tracking studies, suggest cleaned birds have a good chance of long - term survival even compared with birds that were never oiled.

At the time of posting 442 oiled birds had been captured and roughly a dozen brown pelicans had been released while a large number remained in holding pens.

As oil slicks continue to lap at the pelicans» breeding grounds in coastal Louisiana, armies of wildlife rehabilitators are frantically trying to catch and scrub the contaminated birds clean.

The biologist Silvia Gaus recently called for oiled birds to be killed humanely, claiming 99 per cent of released animals die within days or a few weeks due to stress or kidney and liver damage from ingesting oil.

In one compelling example, wildlife researcher Stacia Backensto, a graduate student at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, was stymied by bird cognition when she began studying how ravens used ambient heat from buildings to adapt to life on the dark, frigid oil fields of the Arctic coast.

A drier bird cooks faster, so start by using a rack to keep it out of its own juices, and baste the bird with oil.

Mushrooms are potential miracle workers, capable of cleaning up oil spills and radioactive contamination, filtering bacteria - tainted wastewater, speeding reforestation of clear - cut woodlands, boosting agricultural yields, controlling insect pests and treating ailments ranging from cancer and bird flu to diabetes and dementia.

BP oil spill may have killed hundreds of thousands of birds.

For instance, even a light sheen of oil on sandpipers» wings makes it harder to fly, costing birds more energy, a different group of researchers reported earlier this year.

At the higher of two crude oil doses, birds» blood contained less hemoglobin per red blood cell, a sign of anemia.

Researchers suspected that oil might deprive birds of oxygen by affecting hemoglobin, which carries oxygen in the blood.

When they get a tern or pelican to drop a fish, they plunge down and grab it off the surface of the water, which may have been how this bird got oiled.

Secretive marsh birds like clapper rails, king rails and soras — one of which has already been found oiled — frequent brackish and salt marsh habitat.

Passing through The birds rescued so far include northern gannets, pelicans, a sora, a magnificent frigatebird and laughing gulls, along with a handful of unexpected species like rock doves and a cattle egret that are not generally expected to come into contact with the oil.

To catch the bird in action, Tobalske and his team employed an unusual visualization technique involving a clear plastic box, high - speed military cameras originally designed to document ballistics, a laser, and a few spritzes of olive oil.

The list represents a variety of avian lifestyles — and a mix of reasons why oil would reach the birds.

Computer software then analyzes the motion of the oil particles to determine airflow and the force applied by the bird's wings.

As of Saturday, just 24 oiled birds had been rescued from Gulf of Mexico waters around oil - spill containment ships or on the beaches, where volunteers and experts are on the lookout.

6 Fashion march of the penguins: Thousands of tiny, colorful sweaters have been knit for these flightless birds, to keep them from preening themselves if they are doused in oil from a spill.

So researchers turned to two different estimation methods — one whereby total mortalities were estimated from the actual number of dead birds recovered, and another in which information on the geographic extent of the oil slick and seabird densities were used to estimate potential mortalities.

I mean, it's an area of about 35 million acres — about the size of Florida — that is going to be mined and crisscrossed with a spider web of pipelines and roads to get the oil out of there and that's going to be something that's going to impact... probably cause the loss of tens of millions of birds.

Researchers assigned a score to birds based on the proportion of compounds in the preen oil.

Asphaltenes are partially to blame for the damage that an oil tanker called Prestige caused to hundreds of miles of coastline in northwestern Spain last November and the thousands of birds it killed.

These oil shales formed at the bottom of ancient Lake Messel and preserve the remains of mammals, birds, and other animals that were living near what is now Darmstadt, Germany about 47 million years ago (the Eocene epoch).

This week we have stories on the twisty tree of human ancestry, why mice shed weight when they can't smell, and the damaging effects of even a small amount of oil on a bird's feathers — with Online News Editor David Grimm.

For example, there are nearly 80 mammal species in Malaysia's primary forests, just over 30 in disturbed forests, and only 11 or 12 in oil palm plantations.2 A similar loss in diversity occurs for insects, birds, reptiles, and most important of all, for soil microorganisms.

In the last few years, I've focused on the impacts of noise from oil and gas development on arthropod and bird communities, and the cascading effects on sagebrush physiology.